![]() (And he still buys a canary from her! The canary, by the way, does not have a happily ever after.) Nobody hurts the kitten.) At the pet store, all the animals lose their shit and the shopkeeper displays totally awesome salesmanship by telling Oliver that it’s because they know when some people just ain’t right - while Irena stands out in the rain. (I was really worried about the kitten - don’t worry, the kitten is okay. The kitten makes it clear that it would rather be tossed in the Hudson with a brick than snuggle up to Irena, so they have to take it back. Good job, King John.ĭespite this all being kind of weird and awkward, Oliver and Irena seem to hit it off and he brings her a kitten. She invites him back to her apartment for “tea.” (Maybe things were different in the 40’s?) She tells him a story from her homeland about King John of Serbia killing all the cat witches except the ones smart enough to escape, thus selecting for the smartest, meanest ones. ![]() Irena (Simone Simon), a Serbian fashion designer, is minding her own business drawing panthers at the zoo when she meets Oliver (Kent Smith), a naval architect. Free shipping!ĬAT PEOPLE is, at heart, a sad little domestic tragedy about sex. But by totally missing the point in so many different ways, Bosley-old-chum accidentally gets it right - everybody in this movie would be a lot happier if Irena the Cat Lady went to Good Vibrations and ordered herself a Hitachi Magic Wand. to claw people to death” and not, you know, exercise their digits. Crowther were a little less in love with his own convoluted sentence structure perhaps I’d have understood that by “exercise their digits” he was referring to the “temptations…. (Am I the only one else who imagines either Snagglepuss or Templeton the Rat? Purrrr, indeed.) If Mr. I’m really not sure that anybody named Bosley Crowther ought to be throwing stones at anybody else’s house, myself. ![]() Purrrr.” - Bosley Crowther, New York Times, Dec.7, 1942 And Miss Simone's cuddly little tabby would barely frighten a mouse under a chair. "The Cat People" is a labored and obvious attempt to induce shock. ![]() And people who make such pictures should do so much more briskly than they have here. Ladies who have such temptations-in straight horror pictures, at least-should exercise their digits a bit more freely than does Simone Simon in this film. ![]() “The strangely embarrassing predicament of a lady who finds herself possessed of mystical feline temptations, especially one to claw people to death, is the topic pursued at tedious and graphically unproductive length in RKO's latest little chiller, " Cat People," at the Rialto. ![]()
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