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When the Cat's Away
Television (Full Length) – 1987
This concert film captures When the Cat's Away during their first tour. Director Alan Thurston captures the high energy performance and pure joie de vivre of the five women vocalists, showing why the group became a Kiwi favourite. A set focusing on New Zealand songs, international hits of the period and soul classics proved irresistible on the pub circuit. The group would go on to score hit records and bigger shows (playing to 80,000 the following summer). But this was the moment they arrived. The film won best documentary at the 1988 Film and Television Awards.
We didn’t get together because of all the different types of voices or anything like that, it was just pot luck, see what happens ... and it was just incredible. It just worked.– Dianne Swann
Key Cast & Crew
Christine Munro
Tim Pollard
Alan Thurston
David Madigan
Linda McLennan
Annie Crummer
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