Cat Alert

Claire has been impressed by two feline performances lately, a tabby in The Incredible Shrinking Man, and a Siamese in Hangover Square (which we watched last night). Both cats are important to the movies' plots. In The Incredible Shrinking Man, the relation of Grant Williams to his cat necessarily changes quite a bit as he shrinks from six feet to three inches, with unhappy consequences (not the cat's fault, Claire points out!). In Hangover Square, the cat serves as her original owner Linda Darnell's surrogate, and to underline this, they meet their unfortunate fates simultaneously (a scene that Claire did not enjoy, but understood to be crucial to the story-line). The Siamese is quite adorable when it parks itself on top of the piano as Laird Cregar is composing.