The Cat and the Canary

Radley Metzger is an American filmmaker and film distributor. Metzger was born in New York City. In his early career, he worked primarily as a film editor employed in cutting trailers for European art films. His directorial debut, Dark Odyssey was a drama concerning the experiences of a Greek... immigrant arriving in New York. The film was favorably reviewed by the New York Times. Along with Ava Leighton, Metzger founded Audubon Films in the early 1960s, a film distribution company that specialized in importing international features, some of which were marketed into the gradually expanding sexploitation film genre. Metzger's skills as an editor were employed in re-cutting and augmenting many of the features Audubon handled, including I Spit on Your Grave and I, a Woman. Audubon's first run-away success was Mac Ahlberg's I, a Woman . Metzger's second directorial effort, The Dirty Girls was shot in 1963 and released in 1965. As an auteur, Metzger is considered to be among the more stylish directors of the sexploitation and porno chic eras. He often shot films in Europe. ].
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