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An anthology of three tales about cats who are able to display some fierce, vengeful loyalty after their owners have been abused or murdered.
Tying these stories together is a subplot featuring the late, great Peter Cushing as a paranoid, jittery investigative reporter Named Wilbur, who happens to be deathly afraid of cats. (FYI the name for this is Ailurophobia.) In a late-night visit to his publisher Frank, played by the great Ray Milland, Wilber is trying to show how harmless little pussycats are trying to kill us all and take over the world. (Though he’s not the first to have that suspicion: lots of us cat lovers have thought the same thing.) He explains it through the three stories that follow.
In the first tale, London 1912, which takes place in London 1912, always one of my favorite eras, a rich old lady (Joan Greenwood) decides to disinherit her philandering nephew and leave it all to her greatest comforts in life, her cats. The aunt’s scheming little maid finds out, kills her and tries to destroy the will so her lover, the disreputable nephew, gets everything, the way it was in the aunt’s last will. But the cats will let her do no such thing, and they scratch, bite and attack and finish her off before she can touch that paper. They are sharp creatures - in wits as well as teeth and claws - setting out to avenge their owner’s murder, and they soon make short work of the nephew as well. In all a very satisfying tale with a twisted Tales-From-the-Crypt sense of justice being delivered.
In Quebec 1975 an orphan named Lucy comes to live with her aunt, uncle and cousin, bringing with her her most precious possession, her black cat Wellington. Already she faces hostility, as her aunt, uncle and cousin hate cats and make plans to do away with Wellington, and her cousin Angela teases her mercilessly. But don’t feel too bad for little Lucy: she knows witchcraft and magic and she soon enough takes her revenge for all the indignancies she has suffered. Angela is simply reported as “missing”.
Hollywood 1939 features some great comic acting by the always-superb Donald Pleasance as egotistical film actor Valentine De’ath (nice appropriate name) and the sadly underrated Samantha Eggar as his bubble-headed mistress Edwina, with assistance from John Vernon as the producer Mr. Pomeroy. Val kills off his wife Madeleine to get Edwina into films and his bed, but he forgets that Madeleine has a cat, named Scat, who is now out for revenge.
Frank, of course, thinks the whole theory preposterous, but - what if Wilbur is right? “The way they stare at us - spy on us!” he says. They take in everything. They are just weighing their strategies and chances to strike, and at the end of the picture they set out to make sure that Wilbur’s warning to the world will go unheard.
Altogether this is a funny, fun picture, and cat lovers should love it. The underlying message is, don’t underestimate us cat lovers. We have powers you can’t comprehend.
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