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The Cat Creature
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Genre
Horror
Written by
Robert Bloch (teleplay)
Story by
Douglas S. Cramer Wilfred Lloyd Baumes Robert Bloch
Directed by
Curtis Harrington
Starring
Meredith Baxter David Hedison Gale Sondergaard
Music by
Leonard Rosenman
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
Production
Producers
Douglas S. Cramer Robert J. Anderson (associate producer)
Production location
Los Angeles
Cinematography
Charles Rosher
Editor
Stan Ford
Running time
74 minutes
Production companies
Douglas S. Cramer Company Screen Gems Television
Original release
Network
ABC
Release
December 11, 1973 (1973-12-11)
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The Cat Creature is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film produced by Douglas S. Cramer and directed by Curtis Harrington from a teleplay by Robert Bloch and starring Meredith Baxter, David Hedison and Gale Sondergaard. The film serves as a tribute to the low-budget Val Lewton horror films of the 1940s and also features an appearance by Kent Smith, who starred in Lewton's original classic Cat People (1942) and its sequel The Curse of the Cat People (1944). It originally premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week on December 11, 1973.
Robert Bloch tells in his autobiography how the film was originally planned as a starring vehicle for Diahann Carroll but that by the time the script was completed and approved, Miss Carroll had fulfilled her contractual obligations with the network and he had to rewrite her role. He also writes of other difficulties with the scripting. After being informed the script ran twelve minutes too long, and Bloch's laboriously editing the screenplay to make it run to time, on a viewing of the rushes it was found the film now ran twelve minutes too short. Most of the sets had already been torn down. Bloch had to work out how to put twelve minutes back into the film so it would go out over the network on the appointed date.[1]
^Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography. NY: Tor Books, 1993, pp. 360-63
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