The Cat Creature (1973) on Netflix
A wealthy man dies, and a gold amulet is taken from the mummy wearing it in his collection. Police call in scholars as those linked to the case die of cat-like wounds.
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Plot summary
Late one evening, the appraiser Frank Lucas visits the home of a client who has died, to finish inventorying the estate. In the basement he finds a sarcophagus holding a mummy that wears a solid gold amulet shaped like a cat's head, its eyes set with emeralds. Joe Sung slips out of the shadows and takes the amulet, and Lucas is attacked by a black feline with a jackal's howl. Sung later carries the amulet to The Sorcerer's Shop, which deals in occult goods, and its proprietor, Hester Black, turns him away. Lt. Marco, investigating, takes advice from Roger Edmonds, a professor of archeology. A salesgirl, Rena Carter, is among those drawn into the case.
Cast
- Peter Lorre Jr.as The Pawnbroker
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Cat Creature (1973)
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- Screenwriter Robert Bloch had to cut twelve minutes from his teleplay for The Cat Creature after being told it ran long, then discovered on viewing the rushes that the film now ran twelve minutes short, with most sets already torn down, forcing him to write the missing footage back in before the network air date.
- Robert Bloch wrote in his autobiography that The Cat Creature was originally planned as a starring vehicle for Diahann Carroll, but by the time the script was completed and approved she had fulfilled her contractual obligations with the network, so he had to rewrite her role.
- Gale Sondergaard, who plays the shopkeeper Hester Black in The Cat Creature, had appeared in only one film since 1949 because of the Communist scare blacklist.
