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Actors: Dean Jones, Hayley Mills, Roddy MacDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Frank Gorshin, Ed Wynn
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about That Darn Cat! (1965) |
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While doing a job, bank robbers kidnap a clerk and keep her prisoner when they go into hiding. The clerk puts her wristwatch with a distress signal scratched on its back around the neck of a wandering Siamese cat. When the cat's owner, teenage Patti Randall (Mills) finds the watch, her overactive imagination hits on the truth for once and the FBI gets called in. Agent Zeke Kelso (Jones) has the unusual task of following the cat on its rounds about the neighborhood in the hope that it will lead the authorities to the bank robbers and their captive before they dispose of her -- and he's allergic to cats! MacDowall, Lanchester, and William Demarest play various eccentric neighbors, Wynn does a cameo as a watch jeweler, and Gorshin plays one of the bad guys, who project a fair amount of menace in this otherwise hilarious movie, one of the best Disney live-action features from the Sixties. (A weak remake of this movie came out in 1997 starring Christina Ricci.)
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of That Darn Cat! (1965) |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Animal Story
Yes
Kind of animal:
- cat
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- rescuing from kidnappers
Escape/Rescue?
- escape/rescue from kidnapper(s)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- government investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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