The Cat Shows Her Claws
1960 film
- 9 March 1960 (1960-03-09)
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The Cat Shows Her Claws (French: La chatte sort ses griffes) is a 1960 French war drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Françoise Arnoul, Horst Frank and François Guérin.[1] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around Paris including Montmartre. It is the sequel to the 1958 film The Cat about the French Resistance.
Synopsis
Cora Menessier is sentenced to death by the Resistance in 1944 for an alleged betrayal. After her execution she is left for dead, but is recovered by the Germans who brainwash her and plan to use her as a counter-agent. They release her to target a Resistance operation designed to blow up a train carrying V1s to be used to bombard London and the English coast.
Cast
- Françoise Arnoul as Cora Menessier dite La Chatte
- Horst Frank as Major von Hollwitz
- François Guérin as Louis
- Harold Kay as Charles
- Françoise Spira as Marie-José
- Jacques Fabbri as Gustave - le chef du réseau Sud
- Bernard La Jarrige as Dalmier dit Athos
- Michel Jourdan as Tonio
- Anne Tonietti as Maud
- Chris Van Loosen as Clara
- Gérard Darrieu as Jean-Lou
- Jean-Pierre Zola as Un officier allemand
- France Asselin as Madame Buisson
- Liliane Patrick as La secrétaire de Dalmier
- Ginette Pigeon as L'infirmière allemande
- Anna Gaylor as Mademoiselle Lepage - l'assistante sociale
- Albert Médina as Le patron du restaurant
- Gabriel Gobin as Le conducteur de la locomotive
- Jean Berton as Le cheminot résistant
- Robert Berri as Le chauffeur du camion lors de l'accident simulé
- Robert Le Fort as Un cheminot
- Albert Michel as Un cheminot
- Georges Atlas as Le barman
- Marie Glory as La concierge
- Werner Peters as Le général allemand
References
- ^ Bessy & Chirat p.287
Bibliography
- Maurice Bessy & Raymond Chirat. Histoire du cinéma français: 1956-1960. Pygmalion, 1990.
External links
- The Cat Shows Her Claws at IMDb
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The films of Henri Decoin
- The Oil Sharks (1933)
- Toboggan (1934)
- The Green Domino (1935)
- Mademoiselle ma mère (1936)
- Abused Confidence (1938)
- Return at Dawn (1938)
- Beating Heart (1940)
- Premier rendez-vous (1941)
- The Strangers in the House (1942)
- The Benefactor (1942)
- Love Marriage (1942)
- The Man from London (1943)
- I Am with You (1943)
- Devil's Daughter (1946)
- The Lovers of Pont Saint Jean (1947)
- Clockface Café (1947)
- Not Guilty (1947)
- Monelle (1948)
- Between Eleven and Midnight (1949)
- At the Grand Balcony (1949)
- Three Telegrams (1950)
- Clara de Montargis (1951)
- La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952)
- Love and Desire (1952)
- Lovers of Toledo (1953)
- Dortoir des grandes (1953)
- Les Intrigantes (1954)
- The Bed (1954)
- One Step to Eternity (1954)
- The Affair of the Poisons (1955)
- Razzia sur la chnouf (1955)
- Folies-Bergère (1957)
- Burning Fuse (1957)
- Charming Boys (1957)
- Anyone Can Kill Me (1957)
- The Cat (1958)
- Too Late to Love (1959)
- Nathalie, Secret Agent (1959)
- The Cat Shows Her Claws (1960)
- The Pavements of Paris (1961)
- Le Masque de fer (1962)
- Where the Truth Lies (1962)
- Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963)
- Nick Carter va tout casser (1964)
- Les Parias de la gloire (1964)
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