Rating: G
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 05/03/2005
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Child Classic
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video

Though overlong even for a Hayley Mills vehicle, That Darn Cat is an expert blend of laughs and suspense. The eponymous feline is D.C., a Siamese belonging to sisters Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine. One evening, D.C. comes flouncing home with a lady's wristwatch attached to her neck. The watch contains an unfinished plea for help scribbled on its back, written by Grayson Hall, a bank teller held captive in a neighboring house by robbers Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin. Mills and Provine contact the FBI, who send agent Dean Jones (who's allergic to cats) to investigate. In their efforts to locate and rescue Hall and capture the crooks, Jones and the two sisters embark upon a series of slapstick misadventures involving an unending stream of top character actors. The highlight is a lengthy sequence at the drive-in movie theatre managed by ulcerated Richard Deacon. That Darn Cat is based on Undercover Cat, a somewhat more serious suspense novel by The Gordons.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Hayley Mills - Patti Randall
Dean Jones - Zeke Kelso
Dorothy Provine - Ingrid Randall
Roddy McDowall - Gregory Benson
Neville Brand - Dan
Elsa Lanchester - Mrs. MacDougall
William Demarest - Mr. MacDougall
Frank Gorshin - Iggy
Richard Eastham - Supervisor Newton
Grayson Hall - Margaret Miller
Ed Wynn - Mr. Hofstedder
Tom Lowell - Canoe
Richard Deacon - Drive-in Manager
Iris Adrian - Landlady
Liam Sullivan - Graham
Don Dorrell - Spires
Gene Blakely - Cahill
Karl Held - Kelly

Production:
Robert Stevenson - Director
Ron Miller Bill Walsh - Producer
Robert F. Brunner - Composer
Cotton Warburton - Editor
Bill Walsh Mildred Gordon - Screen Writer
Hal G. Gausman Emile Kuri - Set Designer
Carroll Clark - Art Director
William Tuntke - Art Director
Mildred Gordon - Book Author
Edward Colman - Cinematographer
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer
Joseph L. McEveety - First Assistant Director
La Rue Matheron - Makeup
Pat McNalley - Makeup
Richard M. Sherman - Songwriter
Robert B. Sherman - Songwriter
Eustace Lycett - Special Effects
Gordon Gordon - Book Author

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