"You can fool everybody, but landy deary me, you can't fool a cat!" Irena, a lonely young Serbian immigrant, believes she is descended from a tribe of shape-shifting witches and fears that any physical intimacy will change her into a killer jungle cat. Irena can run. Irena can hide. But she cannot deny the Beast Inside. CAT PEOPLE somehow managed to tell a clearly queer-coded tale of forbidden desires and unspeakable passions at the height of Hayes Code Production censorship, and we are thrilled that it did, because this film is a delight to watch. My special guest this episode are TARA GARNER and KASEY LOMAN. CAT PEOPLE was produced by VAL LEWTON , directed by JACQUES TOURNEUR , written by DEWITT BODEEN and stars SIMONE SIMON , KENT SMITH , JANE RANDOLPH and TOM CONWAY . Mentioned in this episode: Podiverse bumper This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
