The Cat’s Meow

Since the late 60's, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich has continuously and in different ways demonstrated his great affection for the golden age of American film - the 20's, 30's and 40's. He used Boris Karloff footage in his debut Targets, directed John Ford stock company actor Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (where the lead characters one night watch Howard Hawks' classic Red River at the local cinema) and with varying degrees of success paid homage to screwball comedies (What's Up Doc?) and musicals (At Long Last Love).

With The Cat's Meow he recreates one of the most undisclosed and talked about deaths of the 20's. A melodramatic crime story involving newspaper kingpin William Randolph Hearst (prototype model for Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane), producer Thomas Ince, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and others.

Jan Elvsén