Eye of the Cat directed by David Lowell Rich is stimulating horror with a breath-taking San Francisco setting, delicious 1960s counter-culture atmosphere and mind-boggling Hitchcockian suspense by Joseph Stefano (Psycho and The Outer Limits) from beginning to end that left me satisfied.  Afterwards, I wanted to write.

The story hints on an incestuous infatuation between rich Aunt Danny who suffers from emphysema  and her favorite nephew (Wylie) Aunt Danny cherishes like an idol.  A lot more than Wylie’s younger brother Luke who looks after Aunt Danny after Wylie took off for warmer places.  Aunt Danny calls Wylie "the prince of her soul."  When beautiful Kassia an employee at the Spa (Belomondo) where Luke drives Aunt Danny learns that Aunt Danny is dying and plans to leave all her money to her 100+ cats unless Wylie returns to inherit her fortune instead of the cats, Kassia who has all the wrong values locates Wylie across the bay to return home.  Together, as scripted by Kassia, they scheme to murder Aunt Danny right after Aunt Danny first gets rid of the cats since Wylie has ailurophobia and then signs a new will. 

But the cats with or without Aunt Danny's signature or oxygen have a deadly will of their own...

Simone and Morini scene​

Down on his luck and in desperate need of money, Simone (Renato Salvatori) goes home with boxing promoter Morini (Roger Hanin) and does what a man has to do to earn it.

Morini quotes:  

• "Purple, the color of champions and showgirls."
• ​"Got the jitters? It happens when you realize that punches ruin your profile."

There are actors in roles you know you would have liked a lot in person like John Cassavetes  in “Hitchcock Presents”: You Got to Have Luck as Sam Cobbett, an escaped convict.   Corbett is a little short guy who is sexy both unshaven and shaven with a tall order as far as bad guys go.  Though he's in a desperate rush to flee the country, he takes time to demand a meal of three eggs and coffee from a housewife who cooks and follows his commands out of fear.  Sam likes this woman, the so-called protagonist, because it's been so long since he's known any woman. Married or unmarried.  He doesn't care. As the story unfolds you care more about what’s happening to Sam than the woman.
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Sam has no mercy as a convicted bank robber and a cold-blooded murderer who’s not afraid to kill again.  Without a doubt, he enjoys intimidating the young woman whose peculiar handicap, unknown to Cobbett, threatens to put him right back in the slammer where he started.
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This is probably my favorite X-Files episode (First Season #20) when it really looks like Mulder and Sculder are doomed with no one out in Darkness Falls. The nice trip to the forest that Mulder promises Sculder turns into Scully's worst nightmare of blood-sucking crawling things...

Clip:  "Mulder! Get them off me..."

A playboy mystery writer (Jack Cassidy) devises an elaborate kidnapping scheme to kill his writer partner (the team's real writer) who wants to go solo as a serious writer but a widowed witness looking for romance poses a another problem.

Stars Peter Falk as Columbo with Jack Cassidy as Ken Franklin. Written by Steven Bochco. Directed by Steven Speilberg.

Raven Alexander Jamison Swift