The Cat From Outer Space

In THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE, an alien who looks like a house cat, nicknamed Jake (voice of Ronnie Schell), turns out to be the pilot of a mysterious spaceship that has landed on Earth for lack of fuel. The ship contains lots of advanced technology, including a mysterious power generator that baffles the U.S. military and a gaggle of scientists trying to figure it all out. The cat selects one oddball researcher, Frank (Ken Berry), to confide in. He shows Frank his remarkable powers of telepathic communication, his ability to freeze people in their tracks and to influence events on Earth, including horse races and pool games. When the cat diagnoses his ship's problem as a need for $120,000 worth of gold, Frank enlists a goofy colleague (McLean Stevenson) with a gambling problem to win enough to raise money to fund the gold purchase so the cat can take off and join his fellow aliens. A token power-mad villain is also after the cat and his powerful collar, and that leads to a kidnapping, a helicopter-airplane chase, and a daring rescue. Both the villain and military fail to capture the cat, who, with his human help, blasts off into space happily ever after.