Mousey

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This article is about the 1974 Canadian thriller film. For the American jazz drummer, see Mousey Alexander.
See also: Mousie (disambiguation)

Mousey
Directed byDaniel Petrie
Written byJohn Peacock
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJack Hildyard
Edited byJohn Trumper
Music byRon Grainer
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • March 9, 1974 (1974-03-09) (US)
Running time
89 minutes[1]
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Mousey (released as Cat and Mouse in cinemas and on UK television)[2] is a 1974 Canadian thriller film directed by Daniel Petrie,[3] and starring Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg, and John Vernon.[4]

Although produced for television, the film was released theatrically outside Canada and the United States. In London, it was shown as part of a double feature with Craze.[5][6]

Plot

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In Halifax, Nova Scotia, biology teacher George Anderson (Douglas) is nicknamed "Mousey" by his students after he fails to dissect a frog. When he learns that his pregnant wife (Seberg) is carrying another man's child, he follows her to Montreal, where he intends to kill both her and her lover.[7][8][1]

Cast

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Production

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Mousey was filmed on location in Montreal, Canada and at Pinewood Studios in England. Filming commenced in November 1973.[6]

Reception

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The film received mixed reviews. Steven H. Scheuer called it "complicated and not very interesting",[9] and the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "seems to have been doomed from the start".[8]

Leonard Maltin reviewed the film more favourably, calling it "tightly made" and praising Douglas as "wonderfully sinister".[10] Amis du film described it as a "good 'suspense' film", though noted a lack of originality in its plot.[11] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "a thriller with some pretensions to psychological depth".[1]

Legacy

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Mousey has been re-aired on television and released on VHS, with several film blogs noting a developing cult following.[12][13]

References

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Citations
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Bibliography
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  • Mousey at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  • ‹See Tfd›Mousey at the TCM Movie Database
  • Cat and Mouse at the British Film Institute
  • Mousey at AlloCiné (in French)


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