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Roy Webb
Original Music Composer -
Jacques Tourneur
Director -
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction -
Mark Robson
Editor -
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration -
Mel Berns
Makeup Artist -
Renié
Costume Design -
John Leipold
Orchestrator
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CinemaSerf 6/26/2022 6:32:24 AM
Simone Simon ("Irina Dubrovna") comes to work in New York where she falls in love with Kent Smith ("Oliver Reed"). Their relationship soon becomes strained after she struggles with intimacy - you see she believes that should she ever even kiss someone she loved, she would turn into a violent feline and claw him to death. She confides in her now husband and somewhat sceptical, he sends her to a psychiatrist, the debonaire Tom Conway ("Dr. Judd"). Our story tracks her determination to get past this obsession in the face of her growing suspicion that "Oliver" is seeking solace elsewhere - and that they are planning on having her committed - in a tense and eerie way. The dialogue is quite stilted and the theatricality of the performances rob the film of much of it's pace - but it is still a good horror thriller.
Alan Napier
Doc Carver (uncredited)Kent Smith
Oliver ReedTom Conway
Dr. Louis JuddSimone Simon
Irena Dubrovna ReedJack Holt
The CommodoreAlec Craig
Zookeeper (uncredited)Dot Farley
Mrs. Agnew (uncredited)Donald Kerr
Taxi Driver (uncredited)