The Cat Creeps
The Cat Creeps is a 1946 American film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, and Paul Kelly. It follows a journalist and his photographer who attempt to research an unsolved death and locate a missing fortune, with the help of a black cat that appears to be possessed by the spirit of a dead woman.
Plot
Journalist Terry Nichols is hired by his boss, Sampler, to research a mysterious letter received by the Morning Chronicle from a Cora Williams, who writes that she discovered a $200,000 fortune and considers it proof of Eric Goran's murder, which was ruled a suicide fifteen years prior. Cora's relative, Walter Elliott, once a suspect in Eric's murder, is now running for the United States senate against Sampler's brother-in-law.
More details
| author | Edward Dein Gertrude Walker Jerry Warner |
|---|---|
| director | Erle C. Kenton |
| editor | Russell Schoengarth |
| genre | horror mystery |
| keywords | ailurophobia birdhouse black cat blackmail bootleg business card date dollhouse flee meet morning murder mysterious letter nothing possess remote island rum-running run search strand |
| musicBy | Paul Sawtell |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films American Film Institute Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | stag |