The Cat O' Nine Tails

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

The Tarantino Connection
The track "Paranoia Prima" by Ennio Morricone is reused in Death Proof.

Main Details

  • Released in 1971 | Color
  • Running Time: USA:90 min (cut version) | Austria:114 min (Limited Uncut Integral-Version) | West Germany:32 min (Super 8-version in 2 parts) | Spain:110 min | USA:112 min | Argentina:115 min
  • Production Co: Labrador Films | Seda Spettacoli | Terra-Filmkunst | Transconta SA
  • Distribution Co: Mondial Films (1971) (France) (theatrical) | National General Pictures (1971) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed) | Constantin Film (1971) (West Germany) (theatrical) | Valio-Filmi (1972) (Finland) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Dario Argento
  • Written by Dario Argento, Luigi Collo, Dardano Sacchetti, Bryan Edgar Wallace
  • Starring James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
  • Produced by Salvatore Argento
  • Original Music by Ennio Morricone
  • Cinematography by Erico Menczer
  • Film Editing by Franco Fraticelli

Plot Summary

  • A newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company's experimental, top-secret research projects and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.

Also Known As

  • El Gato de las nueve colas (Argentina / Spain)
  • Le Chat à neuf queues (France)
  • Dokuz kuyruklu kedi (Turkey) (Turkish title)
  • O Gato das Sete Vidas (Portugal)
  • O Gato de Nove Caudas (Brazil)
  • O Gatos me tis 9 oures (Greece)
  • Hiipivä kauhu (Finland)
  • Kot o dziesieciu ogonach (Poland)
  • Die Neunschwänzige Katze (Germany)
  • De Nio heta spåren (Sweden)
  • Smygande skräck (Finland) (Swedish title)

Taglines

  • It's nine times more suspenseful!
  • Caught between the truth and a murderer's hand!
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