That Darn Cat! (1965)

★ 6.6 1h 56m IMDb

Comedy Crime Family

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

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Hayley Mills as Patti Randall Age 80 · Marylebone, London, England, UK Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting c...

Dean Jones as Zeke Kelso Died 2015 · Decatur, Alabama, USA Dean Carroll Jones (January 25, 1931 – September 1, 2015) was an American actor. He is best known for his leading roles in several Walt Disney movies between 1965 and 1977, most notably The Love Bug..

Dorothy Provine as Ingrid Randall Died 2010 · Deadwood, South Dakota, USA Dorothy Provine (1935–2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne..

Roddy McDowall as Gregory Benson Died 1998 · London, England, UK Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-American actor, director, and photographer. He is best known for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the origin...

Frank Gorshin as Iggy Died 2005 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Frank John Gorshin, Jr. (April 5, 1933 – May 17, 2005) was an American actor and comedian. He was perhaps best known as an impressionist, with many guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The To...

Neville Brand as Dan Died 1992 · Griswold, Iowa, USA Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 - April 16, 1992) was an American television and movie actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neville Brand licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contribu...

Director Robert Stevenson

Cast Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Frank Gorshin, Neville Brand, Elsa Lanchester, William Demarest, Richard Eastham, Grayson Hall

John Chard 6/10 Apr 14, 2020

What time is it Kitty Kat?

That Darn Cat! is out of Disney Productions and directed by Robert Stevenson. Collectively written by Bill Walsh and The Gordons (Mildred & Gordon), it stars Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin. Music is by Robert F. Brunner and cinematography by Edward Colman.

When DC the Siamese cat is found to have a watch around his neck, one of his owners, Pattii Randall (Mills), alerts the FBI to the possibility it's a clue to a recent kidnapping. Cue much malarkey as humans and cat try to solve the crime whilst staying one step/paw ahead of the criminals...

Utterly harmless fluff from the House of the Mouse, That Darn Cat! is basically a live action cartoon. Away from the wonderful cat(s) performance - and the skillful capturing of said cat(s) reactions to situations - there's no great technical genius here. Nothing wrong with that, this is good old fashioned entertainment for the kids to chuckle along with and for the adults to smile at. Yes some of the performances are twee or precious, and the story is silly, but it's honest family fare that's also boosted by Ed Wynn and Elsa Lanchester in secondary support slots. 6.5/10

r96sk 8/10 Jul 25, 2020

Funny, probably the most I've laughed at a Disney film so far.

<em>'That Darn Cat!'</em> is an entertaining production. The premise, whilst not incredibly executed, is amusing and very watchable. Cast-wise it's terrific, Hayley Mills and Dean Jones certainly raise everyone else up but all the characters are astutely cast. DC the cat is adorable, too.

Mills plays Patti while Jones portrays Kelso. They both work very well together, I enjoyed both performances. Ed Wynn has, like in <em>'Those Calloways'</em>, a good short showing. No others stand out per se, but they all bring little things to their respective roles.

I do wish they would've done more with the villains though, given they were nicely cast. What they give is decent, but they definitely could've played a bigger part. The film probably runs 10-15 minutes too long also.

You should watch this if you get the opportunity, it makes for fun viewing.