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Red</B></I><B>) </B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Stephen King  (</B><I><B>Creepshow, Cujo, It, Pet Semetary</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Alan Silvestri</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Martha Schumacher</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography..Jack Cardiff</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.........Dino DeLaurentis</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Sandi Duncan</B></div> <div> <B>Creatures Created by Carlo Rambaldi ()</B></div> <div> <B>Based on Stephen King's "Cat's Eye"</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Our Girl.................Drew Barrymore (</B><I><B>ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy, Scream, The Wedding Singer</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Morrison...............James Woods (</B><I><B>Chaplin, The Onion Field, Videodrome</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Donatti............Alan King (</B><I><B>Night and the City, Steve Martin Live</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Cresner.................Kenneth McMillan (</B><I><B>Dune, Reckless, Salem's Lot</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Norris...................Robert Hays (</B><I><B>Airplane, Fall of the House of Usher</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Sally Ann..............Candy Clark (</B><I><B>American Graffiti, Amityville III, TheBlob</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Hugh....................James Naughton (</B><I><B>Birds II, A Stranger is Watching</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Junk.....................Tony Munofo </B></div> <div> <B>Mr. McCann..........Court Miller</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Milquetoast...Patricia Benson</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Milquetoast....Russell Horton</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The three shorts are all well done, with deftly controlled pace and some scares. There is, however, something about collections of eerie tales that doesn't always translate easily into movie format. This, like the comic book style it's based on, leaves the viewer wondering what exactly was missing and the answer is on the cutting-room floor - a situation neither director Teague nor scriptwriter King could control. In comic books the answer is easy--everything. The frame novella is a tricky format for a movie and the traveling cat (General) idea is actually strikingly original as far as these go. The cats' tales, however, do not quite measure up to "Creep Show" or "Tales from the Dark Side" in production values, acting, story quality or scariness, although each has its truly shocking moments. The showdown between the cat "General" and the troll is outstanding effects work. They are intended to be creepy as opposed to scary and they deliver on that with a kind of "Twilight Zone" quality. Alan King is in particular splended as the mafia style head of Quitter's Inc. The advantage to the anthology format is that a mediocre 20 minute story is less stressful than a mediocre two hour movie. The Cujo and Christine cameos - the film is peppered with little Kingisms - are good for a laugh. It's your guess as to whether or not General has found a home. Too bad the opening Cat tale, which explains General's mission, to avenge the death of his mistress and protect other children was cut.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Chased by Cujo and nearly flattened by Christine, a cat jumps a freight truck to New York City where a little girl calls from a mannequin, "Help me! It's after me!" So begins the cat's eye view of three eerie tales. What does the cat see?  "Quitter's Incorporated" is a clinic for quitting smoking specializing in some pretty extreme methods of persuasion. The first penalty for smoking is watching your wife hop in an electrically charged cage. The cat serves as a guinea pig. On the second offense the daughter gets zapped and the third offense calls for the rape of the client's wife. The quitter, Morrison, is haunted by sounds and footprints in his house indicating surveillance and when he visits his daughter at school, Dr. Donatti supervises him. When he finally sneaks one after two weeks in a traffic jam, he arrives at home as the phone rings. Wife Cindy has been taken in by Donatti. In the melee at "Quitters the cat gets away and hitches a freight tug leaving behind a transformed Morrison.</B></div> <div> <B>The cat enters the world of gangsters in Atlantic City. Upon arrival again the ghostly little girl begs for help. Then the cat is adopted by a gangster who bet the cat could cross a busy street. The girlfriend of the Mafioso has taken a tennis pro lover, Johnny. As the Mafioso is a betting man, he gives the guy a chance to live. If the lover can make it around a five inch ledge at thirty stories, he gets the girl, a car and money. The playful Mafioso spices things up by poking out windows at inopportune times. Fine fare for acrophobes. In the melee that ensues at payoff time, the cat beats a retreat and arrives in Wilmington, N.C, via freight train where it is adopted by a little girl, the same one who's been calling for help.  </B></div> <div> <B>Amanda (Drew Barrymore) wants to keep him. She tells the cat she's afraid "it" is going to get her. Amanda is haunted by dreams of a monster in the wall that worry her parents. The six inch troll-monster arrives in the night and gets Polly the parakeet, the cat (General) scares it away but is injured in the battle. Mother is not pleased about having the stray around, blaming it for the death of the bird. The grandmother contributes the myth that cats steal children's breath. Mother lures General into a box, informing it that its bird killing days are over. General gets the red termination card at the pound. but escapes at feeding time and heads for Amanda's and a showdown with the troll who indeed is trying to steal her breath. Cats aren't bad at catching things of that size the showdown between General and the monster is great.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>