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That Darn Cat!: Directed by Robert Stevenson. With Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall. That Darn Cat. (1965) re-edited television presentation.
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- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Robert Stevenson
- 1980-01-13
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"The Magical World of Disney" That Darn Cat! (TV Episode 1980) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sun, Mar 9, 1980. A daring political assassination plot envelops four kids in this fast paced Disney thriller. When a cryptic note is passed to young Bert Hale by a stranger he inadvertently holds the key to unraveling the sinister plot and shares this mysterious message with his friends. When the kids are unable to decipher the strange clue ...
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"That Darn Cat" or "D.C." is a wily, adventurous Siamese tomcat who lives with two young women, suburbanite sisters Ingrid (Dorothy Provine) and Patti Randall (Hayley Mills), whose parents are traveling abroad at the time of the story. One night, while making his rounds around town, teasing Blitzy the Bulldog as usual, D.C. follows Iggy (Frank Gors...
The exterior neighborhood scenes were filmed on the Walt Disney Studios backlot in Burbank, California. Each of the Seal Point Siamese cats who collectively play the role of DC, are so-called "traditional" or "old style" Siamese, as opposed to the more dainty, long and tubular modern Siamese show cats. One of the cats used for the movie belonged to...
The film's writers, Mildred Gordon, Gordon Gordon, and Bill Walsh, were nominated by the Writers Guild of America for Best Written American Comedy. The film was also nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, and a Golden Leaf nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Elsa Lanchester). Mills won the 1966 second place Golden Leaf ...
Hayley Mills as Patti RandallDean Jones as Zeke KelsoDorothy Provine as Ingrid RandallDirector - Robert StevensonScreenplay - Mildred Gordon, Gordon Gordon, Bill WalshProducer - Walt Disney, Bill Walsh, Ron MillerFrom Story - Mildred Gordon, Gordon GordonA copyright renewal for the film was registered on October 12, 1993.The copyright to the story it is based on was also renewed in the U.S.
In the book Undercover Cat, which the movie was based on, Patty and Ingrid have a younger brother but is absent in the film.This was one of the final Disney films that Walt Disney was involved with before his death the next year.This was the last Disney film released in 1965.- 3 min
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Box office. $28,068,222 [1] That Darn Cat! is a 1965 American thriller comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Hayley Mills and Dean Jones in a story about bank robbers, a kidnapping and a mischievous cat. Produced by Walt Disney Productions, the film was based on the 1963 novel Undercover Cat by Gordon and Mildred Gordon.
A ho-hum hometown suddenly turns into a hotbed of criminal excitement when a cat brings home an important clue to a mysterious kidnapping!
