Cat Girl

The Cat Girl
Film poster
Directed byAlfred Shaughnessy
Written byLou Rusoff
Alfred Shaughnessy (rewrite)
Produced byHerbert Smith
Lou Rusoff
StarringBarbara Shelley
Robert Ayres
Kay Callard
CinematographyPeter Hennessy
Edited byJocelyn Jackson
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
Insignia Films
Anglo Amalgamated
Distributed byAnglo Amalgamated Film Distributors (United Kingdom)
American International Pictures (United States)
Release dates
  • August 28, 1957 (1957-08-28) (Anaheim, California)
Running time
76 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish

The Cat Girl is a 1957 horror film directed by Alfred Shaughnessy and starring Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, and Kay Callard. It was produced by Herbert Smith and Lou Rusoff. The film was an unofficial remake of Val Lewton's Cat People (1942).

This was the first of two cat-related films starring Barbara Shelley, the other being the British Hammer film The Shadow of the Cat (1961).