The Richest Cat in the World | |
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Genre | Adventure Biography Drama Family Western |
Written by | Marshall Efron & Alfa-Betty Olsen (teleplay) |
Story by | Les Alexander Steve Ditlea |
Directed by | Greg Beeman |
Starring | Ramon Bieri Steven Kampmann Caroline McWilliams |
Music by | Peter Bernstein |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Les Alexander |
Producers | Alexander Gorby Andy Rose John Garbett (supervising producer) Gordon Wolf (associate producer) |
Cinematography | George Koblasa |
Editor | Stanford C. Allen |
Running time | 120 minutes |
Production companies | Les Alexander Productions Walt Disney Television |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | March 9, 1986 |
The Richest Cat in the World is a 1986 American made-for-television adventure drama film directed by Greg Beeman and released by Walt Disney Television. It originally aired March 9, 1986 as a presentation of The Disney Sunday Movie on ABC.[1]
The death of millionaire Oscar Kohlmeyer leaves an inheritance to a talking cat called Leo Kohlmeyer. Leo's inheritance is worth five million dollars while Oscar's nephew (Mr. Rigsby) gets twenty-five thousand dollars on the condition he doesn't contest the will. Being greedy and bossy, Mrs. Rigsby forces her husband to contest. The Rigsbys try to kidnap the cat.