Rena Carter, and a homicidal black cat with glowing green eyes. Cast Meredith Baxter as Rena Carter David Hedison as Prof. Roger Edmonds Gale Sondergaard as Hester Black John Carradine as The Hotel Clerk Renne Jarrett as Sherry Hastings Keye Luke as The Thief - Joe Sung Kent Smith as Frank Lucas Stuart Whitman as Lt. Marco Milton Parson as The Deputy Coroner Peter Lorre Jr. as The Pawnbroker John Abbott as Dr. Reinhart Virgil Frye as Donovan William Sims as Bert Reception John Stanley writes of the film: "Robert Bloch supernatural teleplay with in-jokes about movie cats, but it's pallid stuff. Gale Sondergaard, one time Spider Woman, is a cat goddess claiming victims to possess a golden amulet. Kent Smith, who starred in Lewton's original classic Cat People (1942) and its sequel The Curse of the Cat People (1944), has a cameo. Curtis Harrington needed nine lives to direct David Hedison, Stuart Whitman, Keye Luke, John Carradine; Peter Lorre, Jr. turns up in one scene with a knife in his back. Has the bite of a kitten instead of a jungle marauder." Michael Weldon calls the film "an "okay attempt to recreate a Val Lewton '40s mood. Gale Sondergaard (who had only appeared in one film since 1949 because of the Communist scare blacklist) is Hester Black, a mysterious shopkeeper. John Carradine, Keye Luke, Kent Smith (Cat People) and John Abbott (The Vampire's Ghost) are all on hand to remind you of the B-movie roots." See also List of American films of 1973 ABC Movie of the Week References Mad About Mystery: 100 Wonderful Television Mysteries from the Seventies by Nowak, Donna Marie. The Cat Creature at WorldCat The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen by McKenna, Michael. p. 141 External links 1973 television films 1973 films 1973 horror films American supernatural horror films ABC Movie of the Week American horror television films Films about cats Films scored by Leonard Rosenman Films directed by Curtis Harrington Films with screenplays by Robert Bloch Films based on Egyptian mythology 1970s American films