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...fatal flaw in the scheme is Writer-Director Richard Brooks, whose previous films (The Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, In Cold Blood) were notable for a kind of insistent pretension unembellished by visual style or intellectual depth. In $ (yes, that's the title), Brooks is not content to make a straight caper movie, which his script might have supported. Instead, he guns for philosophical commentary...
Gradually their attitude becomes more threatening. Amy's pet cat is found strangled in the bedroom closet. "They did it to show you they could get into your bedroom," Amy yells, but David does nothing. Soon after, when the men have almost run David off the road on his way into town, he confronts them in the local pub. David, with a twitching grin, just buys them all a drink. Several days later, the workmen lead David off on a snipe hunt, and while he sits in a field, holding a shotgun, two of the men sneak back...
...their own evidence. "We thought it was just a feline leukemia virus," explained McAllister. But further experiments showed that the virus was chemically different from all previously identified mammalian viruses. Gardner still feels a "small nagging doubt-the remote possibility that it's a strange new type of cat virus." To rule out this possibility, the researchers plan an additional series of laboratory experiments, including attempts to produce viral antiserum from guinea pigs and rabbits. The antiserum could then be used in human cancer tissue to test for the presence of the newly discovered virus...
...before dawn. Reading their passages from two almost invisible black books, the narrators (Ann Fay and Kim Fadiman) appear to be gazing down on the village itself, as they involve their listeners by addressing them with the repeated invitation, "only you can see..." The other narrator, the blind Captain Cat (Peter Wirth), was, for Thomas, the natural bridge between the eyes and the ears of his radio listeners, but Wirth's grizzled dignity lends an especially sympathetic dimension to the part...
...Captain Cat lives in a dual world of actual sounds and nostalgic dreams. As he follows Willy Nilly, the Postman (Paul Eisenberg) down the street with his ears, he experiences the life of the village and its inhabitants through his sense of small and sound. The colorful cast of characters often leaves the immediate sensory present, however, intermittently to revisit the past: for Thomas, although professing to paint merely one tantalizing and cyclical day in the life of the village, pulls his audience from one today to many yesterday through his narrators' reiterated incantation that "time passes...