Factual error: Irena, the central character of Cat People, says she is of Serbian ancestry, and that her ancestors fought the Mamluks for their national freedom. Serbia was part of the Islamic Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Mamluks were a military caste who ruled Egypt between 1250 and 1517. To say the Serbs fought the Mamluks for freedom would be comparable to saying that the USA fought the Vikings for independence in 1776.
Cat People (1942)
1 factual error
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Kent Smith, Simone Simon
Continuity mistake: When Alice feels like she's being stalked on the street, she stops and holds onto a lamp post. Next scene, she's standing next to the lamp post instead.
Irena Dubrovna: I fled from the past. From things you could never know or understand. Evil things. Evil.
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: Irena, you told me something of the past about King John and the witches in the village and the Cat People descended from them. They're fairy tales, Irena. Fairy tales heard in your childhood. Nothing more than that. They've nothing to do with you, really. You're Irena. You're here in America.
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