Genre: | Adventure Biography Drama Family Western |
Teleplay: | Marshall Efron Alfa-Betty Olsen |
Story: | Les Alexander Steve Ditlea |
Director: | Greg Beeman |
Starring: | Ramon Bieri Steven Kampmann Caroline McWilliams |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Music: | Peter Bernstein |
Executive Producer: | Les Alexander |
Producer: | Alexander Gorby Andy Rose |
Editor: | Stanford C. Allen |
Cinematography: | George Koblasa |
Runtime: | 120 minutes |
Company: | Les Alexander Productions Walt Disney Television |
Network: | ABC |
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.