Cat Girl

Cat Girl
Film poster
Directed byAlfred Shaughnessy
Written byLou Rusoff
Alfred Shaughnessy (rewrite)
Produced byHerbert Smith
Lou Rusoff
StarringBarbara Shelley
Robert Ayres
Kay Callard
CinematographyPeter Hennessy
Edited byJocelyn Jackson
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
Insignia Films
Anglo Amalgamated
Distributed byAnglo Amalgamated Film Distributors
AIP
Release date
  • October 25, 1957 (1957-10-25)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Cat Girl is a 1957 British horror film directed by Alfred Shaughnessy and starring Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, and Kay Callard.[1] It was produced by Herbert Smith and Lou Rusoff. The film was an unofficial remake of Val Lewton's Cat People (1942).[citation needed] In the United States American International Pictures released Cat Girl on a double bill with The Amazing Colossal Man (1957).

This was the first of two cat-related films starring Barbara Shelley, the other being The Shadow of the Cat (1961).[2]

  1. ^ "Cat Girl". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  2. ^ Interview with Barbara Shelley accessed 26 March 2014