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starring: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Jack Holtdirected by: Jacques Tourneur
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301327961
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6301327969
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1995-08
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: August 22, 1995
Running Time: 73 minutes
Sales Rank: 23766
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1942
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Amazon.com:
The original 1943 film that inspired the sexier 1982 Natassja Kinski remake is an intriguing metaphor for sexual repression and anxiety. When a Manhattan ship architect named Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) marries beautiful but psychologically tortured fashion sketch artist Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), he has little knowledge of her past other than that she is tortured by myths from her European homeland. His bride fears she will transform into a deadly panther if aroused or angry. Once their passionless marriage deteriorates, and Oliver begins to ponder a romance with his coworker Alice Moore (Jane Randolph), Irena's jealousy and anger begin a series of transformations that threaten her therapist, her husband, and Alice. Director Jacques Tourneur never shows Irena's metamorphosis, usually implying the presence of her feline alter ego through creepy sound effects, ominous shadows, and dramatic camera angles, all elements that effectively generate suspense and fear. This black-and-white mood piece takes its time building up its story, and while Irena's inner panther could easily be interpreted as representing the wrath of a woman scorned, Cat People goes deeper in probing her psychic scars. --Bryan Reesman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Calm Horror Story
The film begins at a zoo, where a black panther paces in a cage. A young woman is drawing a sketch: a cat with a sword in it. Irena invites the man to her well-furnished apartment. She likes the dark "it is friendly". There is a statue of King John of Serbia, who freed his country from oppression and evil. The gift of a kitten reveals something about this girl. Her visit to a pet shop disturbs the pets. Do animals detect a person who is not right? Their relationship has some hidden problem; is it ... Read More
Rating:  - Lewton and Tourneur's finest moment.
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Cat People is not only the best horror film that sprang from the collaboration between Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton, it's one of the best horror films ever made. Tourneur and writer DeWitt Bodeen (it's impossible to believe this was his first filmed script) took an out-of-the-way Eastern European legend, crossed it with the werewolf-mania that gripped the monster-movie crowd in the thirties and forties, added a stock love story, and whipped it all ... Read More
Rating: - A creepy B movie with more potential than pay-off, but still fun to watch
Says psychiatrist Dr. Louis Judd, author of The Anatomy of Atavism, to Irena Reed, his reluctant patient. He is describing the things they have just talked about. "...and the cat women of your village, too. You told me of them, women who in jealousy or anger or out of their own corrupt passions can change into great cats, like panthers. And if one of these women were to fall in love, and her lover was to kiss her and to take her into his embrace, she would be driven by her own evil to kill him."
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Rating: - Black Cats ARE Huge if of Serbian Ascent!
"Cat People" (1942) is considered a B Class movie.
Well it was intended as such: tiny budget, short runtime (only 73 minutes) and small cast of actors and actress.
There is no doubt in my mind that this film excels and surpasses those limited expectations. It is a real gem!
Director Jacques Tourneur has delivered an opus of deep psychological connotations. Fear derives more from the ambiance that from what is actually seen on the screen.
This atmosphere is reached by intelligent ... Read More
Rating: - Here kitty kitty
Perhaps the best known and most often imitated "B" movie of the 40s or of all-time Jacques Tourneur's "Cat People" like the main character has a lot going on underneath its surface.
Drenched in atmosphere and sexuality "Cat People" tells the story of Irena Dubrovna, a foreigner who has arrived in America and meets Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) an all-America boy, he even eats apple pie!.
Irena believes in a myth (?) about her people who turn into cats when they express any strong feelings ... Read More
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