Cat Girl
Cat Girl is a 1957 black-and-white British-American crime and horror film, produced by Herbert Smith and Lou Rusoff, directed by Alfred Shaughnessy, that stars Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, and Kay Callard. It was an unofficial remake of Val Lewton's "Cat People" (1942). American International Pictures released the film in the U.S. as a double feature with "The Amazing Colossal Man". It was the first of two cat-related films starring Shelley, the other being "The Shadow of the Cat" (1961). Plot. Leonora Johnson (Barbara Shelley) is a woman who returns to her ancestral home  and is told she will inherit money, but also that there is a family curse: being possessed by the spirit of a leopard in spite of her disbelieving psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe (Robert Ayres). Production. The film was the first Anglo-U.S. co-production from American International Pictures. They put up $25,000 of the budget and a script by their regular writer Lou Rusoff in exchange for Western Hemisphere rights. The script was originally entitled Wolf Girl.