Details

Release year: 1963

Storyline

Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.

Top credits

Directors

Don Chaffey

Writers

Cast

Patrick McGoohan — Andrew McDhui
Susan Hampshire — Lori MacGregor
Laurence Naismith — Reverend Angus Peddie
Jean Anderson — Mrs. MacKenzie

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Did you know

• Paul Gallico, the author of the movie's source novel, was invited to the set during filming, and quickly came to dislike "the great god Disney". Therefore, he was vastly amused when one of the felines portraying Thomasina held up filming for two days by flatly refusing to perform a stunt for which she had been trained, in spite of Walt Disney's frustrated bellowing. Paul Gallico recalled in his memoirs: "I was proud of that cat!" As with many films with animals, more than one cat was used to portray Thomasina. Disney introduced the film when it aired on television (it's included in the DVD special features), during which he indicated that Paul Gallico was his friend.

• With the exception of Thomasina herself, all the cats in Cat Heaven appear to have been transformed into Siamese.

• The film was first broadcast on television in three one-hour installments over three weeks on The Magical World of Disney (1954).