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Directed by | Daniel Petrie |
Written by | John Peacock |
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Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
Edited by | John Trumper |
Music by | Ron Grainer |
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Running time | 89 minutes [1] |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
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]
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, biology teacher George Anderson (Douglas) is nicknamed "Mousey" by his students after he fails to dissect a frog. When he learns that his pregnant wife (Seberg) is carrying another man's child, he follows her to Montreal, where he intends to kill both her and her lover. [7] [8] [1]
Mousey was filmed on location in Montreal, Canada and at Pinewood Studios in England. Filming commenced in November 1973. [6]
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]
Mousey has been re-aired on television and released on VHS, with several film blogs noting a developing cult following. [12] [13]