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"She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!"

NR 1942 · 1h 13m
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Cat People
A Cat's Presence Sparks Unease
Oliver You cold?
[Alice shivers]
Alice A cat just walked over my grave.
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Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People
Taglines She was one of the dreaded "Cat People" – doomed to slink and prowl and court by night... fearing always that a lover's kiss might change her into a snarling, clawing KILLER!
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Cat People
Cats' Intuition Reveals Human Truths
Pet Shop Owner Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here...The cats particularly, they seem to know. You can fool everybody, but laudy dearie me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.
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Cat People
Irena's Struggle with Cats' Affection
Irena Dubrovna Oh, it's alright. It's just that cats don't seem to like me.
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Cat People
Communication Challenges in Relationships
Irena What should I tell my husband? Naturally, he's anxious to have some word.
Dr. Judd What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
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Cat People
Understanding Love and Its Complexities
Oliver You know, it's a funny thing, I've never been unhappy before. Things have always gone swell for me. I had a grand time as a kid, lots of fun at school, here at the office with you and the Commodore and Doc. That's why I don't know what to do about all this, I've just never been unhappy...
Oliver I don't know. All this trouble has made me think, I don't know what love really is. I don't know even whether I'm in love with Irena.
Alice I know what love is. It's understanding. It's you and me and let the rest of the world go by. It's just the two of us living our lives together, happily and proudly. No self-torture and no doubt. It's enduring and it's everlasting. Nothing can change it. Nothing can change us, Ollie. That's what I think love is.
Oliver Well, that's not the way I feel about Irena. It's a different feeling. I'm drawn to her. There's a warmth from her that pulls at me. I have to watch her when she's in the room. I have to touch her when she's near. But I don't really know her. In many ways, we're strangers.
Alice You and I - - we'll never be strangers.
[she grasps his hand]
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Cat People
The Duality of Fear and Attraction
Dr. Judd There is in some cases a psychic need to loose evil upon the world, and all of us carry within us a desire for death. You fear the panther, yet you're drawn to him, again and again. Couldn't you turn to him as an instrument of death?
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Cat People
A Simple Invitation for Tea
Irena Mr. Reed, you would like to have tea in my apartment?
Oliver Oh, ho, Miss Dubrovna, you make life so simple.
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Cat People
A Heartbreaking Decision Amidst Changing Feelings
Irena I went back to Dr. Judd's office. I'm no longer afraid.
Oliver Believe me, Irena, I'd have been the happiest man in the world if you'd told me that a little while ago, but things have changed. I had to learn, maybe through this marriage of ours. I didn't want to tell you this, but now you see I have to. I love Alice. Irena, it's too late.
Irena Too late.
Oliver There seems only one decent thing for me to do. I'll give you a divorce. Believe me, it's better this way.
Irena Better? Better for whom?...There's nothing you can say. There's only silence. But I love silence, I love loneliness.
Oliver Irena, you talk like an insane woman.
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Cat People
Exploring Love and Connection in Cat People
Irena I was watching you.
Oliver That was fun?
Irena Mmm-hmm.
Oliver Do you love me, Irena? You know I love you, don't you? I've never kissed you. Do you know, that's funny.
[She nods]
Irena Why?
Oliver When people in America are in love, or even think they're in love, they've usually kissed long ago. Well? Irena, what's wrong?
[She bites her lip]
Irena I've lived in dread of this moment. I've never wanted to love you. I've stayed away from people. I lived alone. I didn't want this to happen.
Oliver But you just told me you loved me.
Irena I do. I do! I've fled from the past. Some things you could never know, or understand, evil things, evil.
Oliver Now, you've told me something of the past, about King John and the witches in the village and the Cat People who descended from them. They're fairy-tales, Irena, fairy tales heard in your childhood, nothing more than that. They have nothing to do with you, really. You're Irena, you're here in America. You're so normal you're even in love with me, Oliver Reed, a good plain Americano. You're so normal you're gonna marry me, and those fairy-tales, you can tell em to our children. They'll love em.
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Cat People
Love and Destruction in Cat People
Taglines The exciting story of a woman who kills the thing she loves!
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Cat People
The Ultimate Fear Unleashed
Taglines The most terrifying menace of them all!
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Cat People
Belief in the Supernatural Explored
Alice How much do you believe about the cat people?
Dr. Judd I believe...exactly as I told Mrs. Reed. The story is a product of her own fear - her own overworked imagination.
Alice Twice, I've been followed by something that was not human, something that attempted to take my life. I believe that was the cat form of Irena.
Dr. Judd Why should she wish to harm you?
Alice Because I'm in love with her husband.
Dr. Judd Oh, my dear Miss Moore, the story grows more and more charming, simpler too, all the time. You're both victims of fear. Mrs. Reed fears the past and you fear the present. Mrs. Reed has a very strong imagination and you have an equally strong conscience. To understand this, I should first have to hear Mrs. Reed's version of the story myself. That should be a most interesting interview.
Alice I shouldn't advise you to see her alone.
Dr. Judd Do you think I'm afraid of so charming a lady?
Alice Dr. Judd, I know you don't believe me, but you must be careful.
Dr. Judd You want me to carry some means of protection - a gun, perhaps, with a silver bullet? Is that what you mean?
Alice If you're lucky enough to have one.
Dr. Judd Hmmm. Of course, uh. This isn't silver.
[He displays the sword within his cane]
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Cat People
The Comfort of Sound and Darkness
Irena That's the lions in the zoo. One can hear them here often. Many people in this building complain. The roaring keeps them awake.
Oliver And you don't mind it?
Irena No. To me, it's the way the sound of the sea is to others - natural and soothing. I like it. Some nights, there is another sound, the panther. It screams like a woman. I don't like that. Oh, I hadn't realized how dark it was getting. I like the dark. It's friendly.
[She turns on a lamp]
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Cat People
Dangerous Love: A Cautionary Claw
Taglines Kiss me and I'll claw you to death!
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Cat People
Historical Discussion on King John of Serbia
Oliver Who's it supposed to be?
[about a statue]
Irena ].
[[w:Jovan Nenad|King John]
Oliver Oh - ], the ] and all that stuff.
[[w:John, King of England|King John; [Magna Carta]
Irena No, King John of Serbia. He was a fine king. He drove the ] out of Serbia and freed the people.
[[w:Mamluk|Marmalukes]
Oliver Well, why have this around?
Irena Well, perhaps you have in your room a picture of ] or ].
[[George Washington; [Abraham Lincoln]
Oliver Well, what does it mean?...Why is he spearing that cat?
Irena Oh, it's not really a cat. It's meant to represent the evil ways into which my village had once fallen. You see, the Marmalukes came to Serbia long ago, and they made the people slaves. Well, at first, the people were good and worshiped God in a true Christian way. But little by little, the people changed. When King John drove out the Marmalukes and came to our village, he found dreadful things. People bowed down to ] and said their masses to him. They had become witches and were evil, but King John put some of them to the sword and some, the wisest and the most wicked, escaped into the mountains...Those who escaped, the wicked ones, their legend haunts the village where I was born.
[[Satan]
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Cat People
Desire for Acceptance and Affection
Irena Dubrovna Oh, he is sweet. He will like me very much, you will see. I like to be liked.
[to Oliver, about a pet bird]
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Cat People
Marked by a Nighttime Curse
Taglines She Was Marked With The Curse Of Those Who Slink And Court And Kill By Night!
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Cat People
Unique Pleasures of a Singular Experience
Taglines She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!
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Cat People
The Dual Nature of Desire and Danger
Taglines A Kiss Could Change Her Into A Monstrous Fang-and-Claw Killer!
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Cat People
The Importance of Happiness in Relationships
Irena Oliver, we should never quarrel, never let me feel jealousy or anger. Whatever is in me is held in, is kept harmless, when I'm happy.
Oliver I'll turn handsprings, darling. I'll dance in the streets to make you happy.
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Cat People
Seeking Help for Deep-Seated Beliefs
Oliver Irena, I've been trying to kid you out of it. Maybe that's wrong...I've tried to make you realize all these stories that worry you are so much nonsense, but now I see it's not the stories. It's the fact that you believe them. We've got to have help, Irena. ( Not that sort of help, there's something wrong and we have to face it in an intelligent way. We don't need a King John with fire and sword, we need someone who can find the reason for your belief and cure it. That's what we need - a psychiatrist.
[She glances at the statue of the knight impaling the cat]
Irena Find one for me, Oliver, the best one, the very best one.
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Cat People
Boundaries of Intimacy and Understanding
Irena How can you discuss such things, such intimate things about me? How much did you tell her?
Oliver Oh, you can tell Alice anything, she's such a good egg - she can understand anything.
Irena There are some things a woman doesn't want other women to understand.
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Cat People
Mind vs. Soul: A Subtle Distinction
Irena I don't feel you can help me. You're very wise, you know a great deal, yet when you speak of the soul, you mean the mind, and it is not my mind that is troubled.
Dr. Judd What a clever girl, all the psychologists have tried for years to find that subtle difference between mind and soul - and you've found it.
Irena It does seem presumptuous of me, doesn't it? Goodbye, doctor.
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Cat People
Dangerous Desire: The Cost of Love
Taglines To Kiss Her Meant Death By Her Own Fangs And Claws!
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Cat People
Desire for Marriage and Identity
Oliver What is it, darling?
Irena I'm going to beg...
Oliver Mrs. Reed.
Irena It's nice to hear that. Nice. I want to be Mrs. Reed.
Oliver You are.
Irena But I want to be Mrs. Reed, really. I want to be everything that name means to me. And I can't. I can't. Oliver, be kind, be patient. Let me have time. Time to get over that feeling there's something evil in me.
Oliver Darling, you have all the time there is in the world if you want it. And all the patience and kindness there is in me.
Irena Only a little time, Oliver, I don't want more than that.
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