Cat People (1942)
Starring: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt, Kent Smith, Alan
Napier; Director: Jacques Tourneur; Screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen. Producer: Val
Lewton. Runtime: 74 minutes. USA. Black and White. Drama, Psychological, Horror
Sometimes, films that were made for low budgets to feed a
distribution pipeline can grow in distinction over the years and live long
beyond the few weeks of release they were originally intended for. Studios like
RKO needed low-budget films to do well at the box-office to make up for big
budget films, like Citizen Kane (1941) that didn’t always fare as well as
hoped.
