1956 got off to a great start in Los Angeles, thanks to the RKO Hillstreet Theater. Maybe even better than the weeklong monster rally in Boston the previous month.
Category Archives: Erle C. Kenton
Blu-Ray News #339: The Cat Creeps (1946).
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Starring Lois Collier, Fred Brady, Paul Kelly, Noah Beery Jr., Douglass Dumbrille, Rose Hobart
Vinegar Syndrome Labs has announced their Blu-Ray release of The Cat Creeps (1946), a goofy horror/crime/mystery thing from Universal, “newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm dupe negative.”
Erle C. Kenton directed Island Of Lost Souls (1932) and some stuff from Universal’s “monster rally” period — Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942), House Of Frankenstein (1944) and House Of Dracula (1945). A veteran of Mack Sennett comedies, he also did Who Done It? (1942), one of the best Abbott & Costello movies, and You’re Telling Me! (1934) with WC Fields.
Writing to Famous Monsters as a kid, director Joe Dante called the picture a “shamefully un-mysterious mystery with supernatural overtones. Just another grade B murder-in-the-mansion potboiler.” He’s right, of course, but there’s a charm to these movies that I absolutely adore, and the more I see ’em, the more I love ’em.
I’m so glad the folks at Vinegar Syndrome Labs are giving pictures like this the white glove treatment, complete with commentaries, documentaries and other extras. Hopefully, there will be many more. Highly recommended for fans of the whole Universal horror thing.
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