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Mousey
Directed byDaniel Petrie
Written byJohn Peacock
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJack Hildyard
Edited byJohn Trumper
Music byRon Grainer
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • 9 March 1974 (1974-03-09) (U.S.)
Running time
89 minutes[1]
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Mousey (released as Cat and Mouse in cinemas and on UK television)[2] is a 1974 Canadian thriller film directed by Daniel Petrie,[3] and starring Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg, and John Vernon.[4]

Although produced for television, the film was released theatrically outside Canada and the United States. In London, it was shown as part of a double feature with Craze.[5][6]

Plot

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In Halifax, Nova Scotia, biology teacher George Anderson is nicknamed "Mousey" by his students after he fails to dissect a frog. When he learns that his pregnant wife is carrying another man's child, he follows her to Montreal, where he intends to kill both her and her lover.[7][8][1]

Cast

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Production

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Mousey was filmed on location in Montreal, Canada and at Pinewood Studios in England. Filming commenced in November 1973.[6]

Reception

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The film received mixed reviews. Steven H. Scheuer called it "complicated and not very interesting",[9] and the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "seems to have been doomed from the start".[8]

Leonard Maltin reviewed the film more favourably, calling it "tightly made" and praising Douglas as "wonderfully sinister".[10] Amis du film described it as a "good 'suspense' film", though noted a lack of originality in its plot.[11] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "a thriller with some pretensions to psychological depth".[1]

Legacy

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Mousey has been re-aired on television and released on VHS, with several film blogs noting a developing cult following.[12][13]

References

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Citations

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  1. 1 2 3 Raisbeck, John (1 January 1974). "Cat and Mouse". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 41, no. 480. London. p. 122.
  2. ↑ Coates-Smith & McGee 2014, p. 184
  3. ↑ Roberts, Jerry (5 June 2009). Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Scarecrow Press. p. 444. ISBN 978-0-8108-6378-1.
  4. ↑ Lentz III, Harris M. (24 October 2008). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2005. McFarland & Company. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-7864-5210-1.
  5. ↑ Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah (2000). The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors. Wallflower. p. 355. ISBN 978-1-903364-10-9.
  6. 1 2 Coates-Smith & McGee 2014, p. 186
  7. ↑ Thomas, Tony (1991). The Films of Kirk Douglas. Citadel Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-8065-1217-4.
  8. 1 2 Thomas, Kevin (9 March 1974). "Kirk at the Breaking Point in 'Mousey'". Los Angeles Times. p. B3.
  9. ↑ Scheuer, Steven H. (1977). Movies on TV. Bantam Books. p. 487. ISBN 978-0-553-11451-5.
  10. ↑ Maltin, Leonard (1989). Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide. p. 742.
  11. ↑ Coates-Smith & McGee 2014, p. 185
  12. ↑ "The Tie That Binds – Rediscovering 'Mousey' (US/UK 1974–86 mins)". Tina Aumont's Eyes. 26 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Cat and Mouse (1974)". Ninja Dixon. 10 August 2011.

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