David Hedison

Question: There was a '70s movie that I think starred Meredith Baxter Birney as a mummy. She looks normal for most of the movie, kills people (something to do with an amulet), reverts to mummy form on the roof of a building and is killed by cats. Do you know the title?

Answer: I vividly remember seeing this movie when it debuted in the ABC Movie of the Week slot: Directed by Curtis Harrington and scripted by Robert Bloch, it was called The Cat Creature (1973) and starred Meredith Baxter Birney as a resurrected Egyptian priestess of a cat cult turned loose on modern-day Los Angeles when a sacred amulet is stolen from her dessicated corpse. The cast of this affectionate homage to '40s ho read more