Paramount Pictures
Starring: Albert Dekker, Janice Logan
Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: A group of scientists travel to a remote area in South America to assist Dr. Thorkel (Albert Dekker) (aka Dr. Cyclops) with an experiment but end up being the ones on the other end of the microscope.

Featured Feline: Dr. Cyclops has an assistant named Pedro (Frank Yaconelli) who explains to the scientists how many of the animals at the compound have disappeared, all except for his dog Tipo and a black cat named Satanas, whom Pedro notes gets fatter every day.

Later in the film, Dr. Cyclops has shrunk the others. Satanas is waiting by the cellar door.

The doctor goes down to the cellar and opens the door to find his subjects have awakened. They are terrified at the size of Dr. Cyclops and also at the size of Satanas, who growls at them.

Dr. Cyclops picks up Satanas and tells her she must not frighten them. He holds the cat as he asks the scientists how they are feeling.

The doctor then offers them a chance to escape. As they struggle to climb the stairs, Satanas growls again. “These mice are not for you, at least not yet,” the Doctor says, then closes the cat in the cellar.

Eventually the shrunken group manages to get outside. Satanas squeezes out of a hole from the cellar and stalks them.

The cat corners them behind some cactus.

Tipo the dog then shows up and scares Satanas away.

Kitty Cameo: At the end of the film, the one non-scientist in the group, Steve Baker (Victor Kilian) is walking with a local. He spots a little gray cat on the ground and taps his staff at the cat, making it run away.

Final Mewsings: Cats don’t mind have people for dinner, especially when they are bite-sized.

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