The Big Cat 1949
5.5 / 10
The Big Cat
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.
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... Danny Turner
... Doris Cooper
... Tom Eggers
... Gil Hawks
... Jim Hawks, Gil' Son
... Mrs. Mary Cooper
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See All 1 Reviews09 Jul 2022 by CinemaSerf
Were it not for a rather cheesy romance between the hapless, suit and tie wearing "Danny" (Lon McCallister) and the terribly chintzy "Doris" (Peggy Ann Garner), this might have made for quite an exciting mountain adventure. The former arrives from the city to the area where his late mother grew up. The area is suffering not just from the depression, but from a drought and his welcome is not as warm as he might like. He takes up with "Eggers" (Preston Foster) who is set on hunting down a local cougar that is wreaking havoc on the local farming community, but he is soon embroiled in some local shenanigans with the "Hawks" family - "Gil" (Forrest Tucker) and his two yokel sons. Some of the hunt scenes are quite good fun, though the cougar seemed a little unenthusiastic to me; and there is quite a fun waterside brawl. Sadly, though, there is just way too much sentimental guff (usually with a gently accompanying string score) to sustain the theme for me. There's a bit of a twist at the (really quite implausible) end, but despite some fairly decent, active, photography, I felt it ran just a bit low on gas.
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Release Date:
Apr 01, 1949 (United States)
Run Time:
1hr 18`
MMPA Rating:
NR
Original Language:
Spanish
Production Countries:
United States
Status:
Released
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Were it not for a rather cheesy romance between the hapless, suit and tie wearing "Danny" (Lon McCallister) and the terribly chintzy "Doris" (Peggy Ann Garner), this might have made for quite an exciting mountain adventure. The former arrives from the city to the area where his late mother grew up. The area is suffering not just from the depression, but from a drought and his welcome is not as warm as he might like. He takes up with "Eggers" (Preston Foster) who is set on hunting down a local cougar that is wreaking havoc on the local farming community, but he is soon embroiled in some local shenanigans with the "Hawks" family - "Gil" (Forrest Tucker) and his two yokel sons. Some of the hunt scenes are quite good fun, though the cougar seemed a little unenthusiastic to me; and there is quite a fun waterside brawl. Sadly, though, there is just way too much sentimental guff (usually with a gently accompanying string score) to sustain the theme for me. There's a bit of a twist at the (really quite implausible) end, but despite some fairly decent, active, photography, I felt it ran just a bit low on gas.
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The Big Cat
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Cast
... Danny Turner
... Doris Cooper
... Tom Eggers
... Gil Hawks
... Jim Hawks, Gil' Son
... Mrs. Mary Cooper
... Matt Cooper the Mailman
... Wid Hawks, Gil' Son
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