That's as far as it goes for me. An overly complicated set up to get a group of people to an island, then there's murder. Maybe a murdered woman's spirit is possessing her cat... maybe not. Fred Brady, who went on to write in Hollywood, plays a fast talking witty witty witty reporter. It was distracting actually, because all I could think of while listening to him was Bogart's comment about someone "cracking foxy" in the Maltese Falcon. His photographer is played by Noah Berry Jr, a very young Rocky Rockford from tv's The Rockford Files.
Lois Collier was more impressive as a scorned college student in 1944's Weird Woman.
Erle Kenton, the director, also helmed House of Dracula and House and Ghost of Frankenstein, as well as Island of Lost Souls.
I realize that not all these movies are going to be "The Mummy" or "The Black Cat." Despite this, you could tell The Cat Creeps was produced and acted in a totally professional, if not by the numbers, manner. That said, I'm going to keep the A list movies in reserve til I can't take any more of the B's.
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