Cat People
starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
The first of two vintage classics, Cat People, directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton, is a gem of dark suggestion and ominous, unknown fears. Oliver, a young New York draughtsman, falls in love with Irena, a Serbian-born fashion model, whom he meets at the Central Park zoo. But Irena is haunted by a mythical past of occult and bestial worship which threatens whoever may love her with certain death and destruction...
Screenplay by Dewitt Bodeen Produced by Val Lewton
Directed by JACQUES TOURNEUR
. Films: page 10
and at 12.15
Mystery of the Wax Museum
starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh
The second of tonight's classics is the unique original of an often re-told tale, filmed in the then new process of two-colour Technicolor. Lionel Atwill stars as the deranged wax works' sculptor who exhibits the wax coated bodies of murder victims to the unsuspecting public. Fay Wray , of King Kong fame, is the suitably terrified object of his insane obsession. A masterly film denounced by the New York Times in 1933 as being 'too ghastly for comfort'.
Based on a play by CHARLES s. BELDEN
Directed by michaei. cuhtiz. Films: p 10