Friday, February 9, 2018

That Darn Cat! (1965)


Buena Vista Distribution
Directed by Robert Stevenson
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Disney)

Teen Hayley Mills finds a wristwatch around her cat's neck, and concludes it must belong to a bank teller who was recently kidnapped. She talks FBI agent Dean Jones into believing her and he convinces his superior. Several agents are assigned to tail the cat on his nightly rounds in the hopes he will lead them to the kidnappers. After a few false starts, he does exactly that. Absurd comedy, the last Hayley did for Disney, filled with familiar character faces, including Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall (in one of his worst overacting performances), Neville Brand, Frank Gorshin and even Elsa Lanchester as a nosy neighbor. Easy to digest but ultimately forgettable.

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