timothy-5

I only saw the second segment all the way through. I just ordered this film off the internet, so when I see the whole thing, I'll make additional comments. The second segment features an orphaned little girl sent to stay with relatives who have a girl a few years older. The little girl has a black cat. The cat gives the mother the creeps, but she doesn't have the heart to make the girl get rid of the cat after having lost her parents. The older girl starts out with minor verbal taunts, but gets progressively meaner as the story progresses and gleefully laughs as she uses a remote control toy airplane to repeatedly hit the little girl with it. The older girl's wicked laughing pitted against the hysterically frightened little girl's crying made me cringe in horror and it made me really mad. I usually don't like black cats either, but when the little girl finally uses the cat to exact revenge on the other girl, I was cheering for the cat!

While the plot is a little melodramatic, it is written well enough to hold your attention, and the effects were spectacular for that time. Victoria Principal plays the bimbo with the big boobs, but she's usually flat as a pancake in other roles, so she must have been wearing something underneath. When Barbara the secretary tries to squeeze into the crowded elevator, and is pushed out by someone who gets in, my dad laughed. But then the elevator crashed to the ground, killing all inside, and my dad said, "By pushing her out, he saved her life." Sometimes movies are cut when put on video, and some of my favorite scenes were deleted. They didn't absolutely cut it to pieces; most of the good scenes were there, but one of my pet peeves is seeing any scene cut. They completely cut out the man and woman on the airplane. They get into an argument, and he tells her to play her solitaire fortune-telling game. She does, and picks cards in sets of three. In the middle of picking, she picks an ace of spades and says "Possibility of death". If you want to know what happened to her, just ask me!