The Cat and the Canary
7.1
1939
1 hr 12 min
Horror
, Comedy
, Mystery
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
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- Cast：
- Bob Hope , Paulette Goddard , John Beal , Douglass Montgomery , Gale Sondergaard , Elizabeth Patterson , Nydia Westman
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Reviews
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
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Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
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A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
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It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
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