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Theatrical Release: 1942-12-25 DVD Release: 2016-09-20 Torrent Release: 05-09-2022 by user
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Movie Genre:
Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Runtime:
73 min.
Parental Rating:
Not Rated
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations.
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DESCRIPTION
Serbian national Irena Dubrovna, a fashion sketch artist, has recently arrived in New York for work. The first person who she makes a personal connection with there is marine engineer Oliver Reed. The two fall in love and get married despite Irena's reservations, not about Oliver but about herself. She has always felt different than other people, but has never been sure why. She lives close to the zoo, and unlike many of her neighbors is comforted by the sounds of the big cats emanating from the zoo. And although many see it purely as an old wives' tale, she believes the story from her village of ancient residents being driven into witchcraft and evil doing, those who managed to survive by escaping into the mountains. After seeing her emotional pain, Oliver arranges for her to see a psychiatrist to understand why she believes what she does. In therapy, Dr. Judd, the psychiatrist, learns that she also believes, out of that villagers' tale, that she has descended from this evil - women who change into great cats like panthers in passion, anger or jealousy - and that she will turn into a such a dangerous big cat upon being kissed in turn killing her lover and others who have betrayed her. This belief is why she has resisted falling in love before she met Oliver. Learning this information from Irena, Oliver wants to do whatever needed to help her as does Dr. Judd. But Irena's beliefs may be tested when Oliver's friendship with a co-worker named Alice Moore may become more than just friends...
Sinopsis by IMDBCat People (1942), directed by Jacques Tourneur, Criterion remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical mono, commentary track, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034587/
Video encoded in two-pass 9 002 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English SDH subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected.
Note : More Jacques Tourneur classics here, this is perhaps his most well-known film, a for the time novel little story about a woman who thinks she's cursed with a hereditary trait that makes her turn into a big cat when aroused. It's also notable for introducing the "Lewton Bus", the technique of building suspense gradually and then releasing it with a jump scare that turns out to be something innocuous (in many later iterations, this was a cat suddely jumping out), named after producer Val Lewton, who used it in several subsequent films. It's a nice little character piece, subtle and subdued, lit and filmed like a film noir, hinging on what I think are pretty solid performances.
Irena Dubrovna, a Serbian immigrant working as a fashion illustrator in New York, meets handsome engineer Oliver Reed, and they develop a relationship. She tells him of how her village in Serbia was, according to legend, slowly turned to devil worship while being enslaved by the Mameluk Turks, and that only when Christianity returned, the evil, represented in a statue as a large cat, was defeated, with some of the remaining devil worshipers escaping into the mountains. Irena is strangely afraid of intimacy, even kisses, but even so, the two eventually marry. It turns out Irena believes arousal or intimacy will make her turn into a cat and kill her lover, and even sending her to a psychiatrist doesn't do much to help. Oliver eventually develops a relationship with a co-worker, and when Irena begins to suspect, the woman finds herself stalked by an unseen beast...
This Criterion remaster is pretty middle of the road, not particularly sharp or clean, but it does the job. Original mono track likewise acceptable, and the commentary is interesting enough.
