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The Cat Did It
Film historian and movie director Peter Bogdanovich has crafted an instant classic from an obscure play to produce 2001's "The Cat's Meow". Charlie Chaplin, William Randolph Hearst, and his mistress Marion Davies(almost unknown today) are the characters boarding Hearst's yacht Oneida for a fateful 1924 cruise. Fading movie producer Thomas Ince tags along to entice Hearst to bank-roll his sagging career. More than Ince's career is about to go underwater. "The Cat's Meow" surrounds real people and probable events, with wild parties, grand dinners, and a clandestine murder on the menu. Bogdanovich is picture-perfect, lovingly recreating a 1920's Hollywood scandal that is still unsolved. Kirsten Dunst is magnetic as Davies, but it's Jennifer Tilly who steals the show as bouncy, clueless Louella Parsons. This new DVD features a trailer, a Chaplin short, and commentary by world-weary Bogdanovich. Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino appear in an actual Hollywood news-reel. As history has noted, the Hollywood legacy is shrouded in decline. Sadly, the quality of this news-reel has suffered the same fate.

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Entertaining, but not as purr-fect as you'd expect
The latest feature from film maker/critic Peter Bogdanovich is a speculative account of events leading to murder that took place on the yacht of media giant William Randolph Hearst (played by Edward Herrmann) on the night of Sat Nov 15 1924.(Great, now I sound like a court reporter).
Among the famous passengers and possible suspects were Hearst's mistress, actress Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst), Charlie Chaplin (Eddie Izzard) on the brink of his next big success THE GOLD RUSH, film pioneer Thomas Ince (Cary Elwes), gossip columnist Louella Parsons (Jennifer Tilly) and writer Elinor Glyn (Joanna Lumley). Bogdanovich and writer Steve Pero, who scripted from his play have crafted an entertaining ensemble piece/ mystery which somehow manages to avoid falling into the conspiracy theory trap. Add to this lavish production design and good performances all round, especially by Dunst and you have the best Agatha Christie story that Agatha Christie never wrote. You keep expecting Peter Ustinov to show up at some point. Sure, there are the expected love triangles, deep dark secrets and red herrings abound but that doesn't stop THE CAT'S MEOW from being entertaining, despite there being no consistent story of the facts existing. Entertaining, but not special. But with a cast like that, THE CAT'S MEOW is still worth a look.
DVD extras include a director's commentary, making of feature, a Chaplin short film, newsreel footage, interviews with Bogdanovich and the cast and the movie's trailer.

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a olden type movie
This movie takes place in the past, the 50's I think and on a boat. It's just a bunch of actors and writers and rich people. Kirten Dunset plays a young actress, I think Maryln Monroe (I think the other characters call her Maryln). She is very good int his role because it requires her to ACT! SHe has to be both serious and funny when people arent looking. Alos on the boat is an actor named Charlie who is having an affair with Kirsten. Overall a good movie, but its a who dun it?! A who dun it is when theres a crime and nobody knows who did it and the audience has to figure it out like a puzzle. American Beauty was a who dun it and so is this movie. It hink its a cheat cause the writers theysleves dont know who dun it, but if yoiu can ignore that and you are a fan of old movie type ACTING, then The cat's Meow is for you.