A newly-wedded couple travel on the Orient Express through Hungary and blunder into a blood feud between a revenge-crazed surgeon recently released from a prison camp ( Lugosi ) and a sinister architect ( Karloff ) who has murdered his wife and then married his daughter. The latter is also a Satanist who plans to sacrifice the woman in a ritual.
The film is bigger on atmosphere than comprehensible plot - the feline of the title is at best a red herring - but certainly worth seeing for the sparring between the two titans who have the majority of the screen time.
Jacqueline Wells ( as Joan Allison )
Sex : No apart from a couple of smooches
Death : Survives
Jacqueline had been a child actress in the silent era. She was required to change her name to Julie Bishop on signing a new contract with Warner Brothers in 1941 and made her best known films under that name. She died in 2001 aged 87.
Lucille Lund ( as Karin )
Sex : No though she plays all her scenes in nightwear
Death : Killed by her husband after disobeying his orders to stay out of sight
Lucille also played the preserved corpse of her mother in the film. She was a busy actress in the thirties but gave up acting to raise her daughters in 1939. She did some acting in commercials in the seventies. She died in 2002 aged 88.
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