Cat and Mouse (TV),
USA 1974, technicolor


with Jean Seberg

German title: Besuch bei Mr. Scruby
Distributed by: Associated London Film Production
Produced by: Aida Young
Genre / keyword: Thriller / crime
Runtime: 89
Directed by: Daniel Petrie

Summary:


 

This TV-movie starred Douglas as a mild mannered Canadian schoolteacher named George Anderson. Regarded as a milquetoast by his colleagues and despised by his wife (Jean Seberg), Anderson is in the process of being divorced when he learns that the child expected by his wife is not his. He then plans his revenge, inventing a scheme that frightens and outwits his wife and her lover, and which ends with him killing them. A solidly crafted little thriller, the movie allowed Douglas to play quitley against his usual driving, aggressive image.
Cast (in credits order): Kirk Douglas ... as George Anderson
  Jean Seberg ... as Laura Anderson / Richardson
Other cast (alph. order): Alexis, Margo
  Berwick, James
  Bradford, James
  Chandler, Stewart
  Colgan, Valerie
  Fellows, Don
  Henderson, Robert
  Lloyd, Suzanne
  Love, Bessie
  Napier, Francis
  Negin, Louis
  Pickthorne, Elsa
Written by: John Peacock
Photographed by: Jack Hildyard
Music by: Ron Grainer
Film Editing by: John Trumper

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