The butler did do it.
Ella Venable (Catherine Lacey) has been murdered by Andrew the butler (Andrew Crawford) and her body buried on her estate, a plot concocted by him, Ella's husband Walter (André Morell) and Clara the maid (Freda Jackson).
They didn't count on Tabitha, Ella's cat.
The only witness to the crime, she instinctively knows that Walter had her master killed. So this gang decides that they have to kill the cat and find the old will, the one that said that her husband would get none of her money.
Even after Tabitha gives Walter a heart attack, he brings in his family to find and kill the cat. Let me tell you, as the owner of a tabby, you have no idea what a cat can do once it sets its mind to doing it.
Directed by John Gilling (The Plague of the Zombies) and written by George Baxt (Burn, Witch, Burn), this is a Hammer movie that doesn't have classic monsters in it. Well, it's credited to BHP Productions, but it's a Hammer, right? Cue people leaving comments telling me how wrong I am. But anyways, Barbara Shelley is quite cute in this and she and the cat are the only good people in a plot full of people willing to kill one another.
Ella Venable (Catherine Lacey) has been murdered by Andrew the butler (Andrew Crawford) and her body buried on her estate, a plot concocted by him, Ella's husband Walter (André Morell) and Clara the maid (Freda Jackson).
They didn't count on Tabitha, Ella's cat.
The only witness to the crime, she instinctively knows that Walter had her master killed. So this gang decides that they have to kill the cat and find the old will, the one that said that her husband would get none of her money.
Even after Tabitha gives Walter a heart attack, he brings in his family to find and kill the cat. Let me tell you, as the owner of a tabby, you have no idea what a cat can do once it sets its mind to doing it.
Directed by John Gilling (The Plague of the Zombies) and written by George Baxt (Burn, Witch, Burn), this is a Hammer movie that doesn't have classic monsters in it. Well, it's credited to BHP Productions, but it's a Hammer, right? Cue people leaving comments telling me how wrong I am. But anyways, Barbara Shelley is quite cute in this and she and the cat are the only good people in a plot full of people willing to kill one another.