The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise. The screenplay was written by DeWitt Bodeen and the original music score was composed by Roy Webb. The film was marketed with the tagline "The black menace creeps again!"
This film, which was Wise's directorial debut, is the sequel to Cat People (1942) and has many of the same characters; the movie has a completely different story, however.
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The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise. The screenplay was written by DeWitt Bodeen and the original music score was composed by Roy Webb. The film was marketed with the tagline "The black menace creeps again!"
This film, which was Wise's directorial debut, is the sequel to Cat People (1942) and has many of the same characters; the movie has a completely different story, however.
After the death of his wife Irena (Simone Simon), Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) has married former co-worker Alice Moore (Jane Randolph) and they now have a six-year-old daughter, Amy (Ann Carter). Amy has trouble at school because she spends too much time daydreaming, and Oliver tries to encourage her to make friends. After Amy finds a photo of deceased cat-woman Irena, whose name is never mentioned in the house, Irena appears to her and the two strike up a friendship. At the same time, Amy befriends Julia Farren, an aging actress who is alienated from her own...
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