The Cat and the Canary 1927
The Cat and the Canary ★★★ 1927
A group of greedy relatives gather on a stormy night in a creepy mansion for the reading of a 20-year-old will. But before anyone can claim the money, they must spend the night in the manor—and an escaped lunatic is at large! Remade twice, once in 1939 and again in 1979. 81m/B VHS, DVD . Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Lucien Littlefield; D: Paul Leni; W: Robert F. “Bob” Hill, Alfred A. Cohn; C: Gilbert Warrenton.
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