Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Starring: Edmund Lowe, H.B. Warner, Benita Hume
Directed by: Edwin L. Marin
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A series of mysterious suicides surrounding millionaire Lowe Hammle (Gene Lockhart) has detective Philo Vance (Edmund Lowe) working overtime to learn the truth.
Kitty Cameo: Hammle’s mother (Jessie Ralph) is a crotchety women who tells Nurse Beeton (Benita Hume) to find her cat. Later the Nurse is seen with the group of suspects holding the black cat in her arms.
The cat also almost trips up the butler who is carrying a tray.
At the end of the film Philo’s suspect Major Fenwicke-Ralston (H.B. Warner) is calling to the cat who is sitting on a ledge of the high-rise building.
He calls to the cat, who sits down on the ledge.
Finally the cat comes to the man, supposedly via the power of hypnotism. He refers to the cat as Brutus.
Final Mewsings: Don’t assume because a cat comes that it’s been hypnotized.
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