Mousey
Mousey is a 1974 Canadian thriller film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg, and John Vernon.
Although produced for television, the film was released theatrically outside Canada and the United States. In London, it was shown as part of a double feature with Craze.
Plot
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, biology teacher George Anderson is nicknamed "Mousey" by his students after he fails to dissect a frog. When he learns that his pregnant wife is carrying another man's child, he follows her to Montreal, where he intends to kill both her and her lover.Production
Mousey was filmed on location in Montreal, Canada and at Pinewood Studios in England. Filming commenced in November 1973.Reception
The film received mixed reviews. Steven H. Scheuer called it "complicated and not very interesting", and the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "seems to have been doomed from the start".Leonard Maltin reviewed the film more favourably, calling it "tightly made" and praising Douglas as "wonderfully sinister". Amis du film described it as a "good 'suspense' film", though noted a lack of originality in its plot. The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "a thriller with some pretensions to psychological depth".