An escaped show cat, on the prowl in a New Mexico smalltown, unjustly gets the blame for a series of grisly murders. The most sensational of these takes place just out of sight, on the far side of a door, to the accompaniment of horrible noises, and concludes with a nice shock effect of blood oozing under the door. Very atmospheric and seductive, one of the best made of the celebrated series of Val Lewton-produced thrillers in the Forties, although the cheesy story, adapted from a Cornell Woolrich original, is one of the least provocative of that series. This is director Jacques Tourneur's favorite of all his movies, or so he once said, on a day he may have forgotten about Out of the Past and Curse of the Demon and half a dozen others. With Dennis O'Keefe, Jean Brooks, and Margo. (1943) — Duncan Shepherd
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