THE CAT CREATURE Reviews of fun TV movie – free to watch online

Trailer:

Full movie:

Choice dialogue:
Hester Black: “I’m Hester Black. Sounds like a witch, doesn’t it? But my customers seem to like it. Most of them are into witchcraft, black magic, satanism. ”

Lieutenant Marco: “Straight eh? (laughs). Why you could sleep on a corkscrew.”

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Cast and characters:
Meredith Baxter … Rena Carter
David Hedison … Professor Roger Edmonds – The Fly
Gale Sondergaard … Hester Black – Echoes; Night Gallery TV series; The Spider Woman Strikes Back; The Spider Woman
John Carradine … The Hotel Clerk
Renne Jarrett … Sherry Hastings – The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Keye Luke … The Thief, Joe Sung – Gremlins 2; Dead Heat; Friday the 13th: The Series; Gremlins; Scooby Doo! Where Are You?; Mad Love; et al
Kent Smith … Frank Lucas – Die Sister, Die!; How Awful About Allan; Cat People (1942)
Stuart Whitman … Lieutenant Marco – Demonoid; Welcome to Arrow Beach; Night of the Lepus; et al
Milton Parsons … The Deputy Coroner – Kolchak: The Night Stalker; The Dead Don’t Die; Night Gallery TV series; Cry of the Werewolf; Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1942)
Peter Lorre Jr. … The Pawnbroker
John Abbott … Doctor Reinhart – Bewitched; The Munsters; Great Ghost Tales TV Series; The Vampire’s Ghost; Cry of the Werewolf
Virgil Frye … Donovan – Werewolf TV series; Graduation Day; Doctor Heckyl and Mr. Hype; Up from the Depths; Garden of the Dead; Nightmare in Wax; Queen of Blood
William Sims … Bert

Running time:
1 hour 12 minutes

Originally broadcast:
December 11th 1973 on the ABC network

Film Facts:
Director Curtis Harrington’s plans to make the Hester Black character a lesbian were shot down by the network’s standards and practices department, which sent him a threatening letter stipulating that there could be no references to homosexuality in the film. Annoyed by the network’s closed-mindedness, Harrington retaliated by adding a midget prostitute character into the film.

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