The Cat And The Canary (1927)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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11.07.09
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Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
Movie Tagline:
THE MYSTERY THRILLER OF THE STAGE FILMED WITH NEW EFFECTS (original print ad
Title: Cat And The Canary, The Release Date: September 09, 1927
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror, Mystery Languages: None Country: USA Colors: Black and White Sound: Silent IMDB Rating: 7.2 Brimstone Pit Rating: 8.2 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With C
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director(s):
Paul Leni
Cast:
Laura La Plante ...Annabelle West
Creighton Hale ...Paul Jones
Forrest Stanley ...Charles 'Charlie' Wilder
Tully Marshall ...Roger Crosby
Gertrude Astor ...Cecily young
Flora Finch ...Aunt Susan Sillsby
Arthur Edmund Carewe ...Harry Blythe (as Arthur Edmund Carew)
Martha Mattox ...Mammy Pleasant
George Siegmann ...The guard
Lucien Littlefield ...Dr. Ira Lazar
Hal Craig ...Policeman
Billy Engle ...Taxi driver
Joe Murphy ...Milkman
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Paul Kohner
Writer(s):
John Willard
Walter Anthony
Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn
Robert F. Hill
Composer(s):
Hugo Riesenfeld
More Movie Taglines:
- THE MYSTERY THRILLER OF THE STAGE FILMED WITH NEW EFFECTS (original print ad
- all caps)
Movie Quote(s):
- Roger Crosby: I have come to read the will of Cyrus West. Have any of the heirs arrived yet? Mammy Pleasant: No, Mr. Crosby. Roger Crosby: You must have been lonely here these twenty years, Mammy Pleasant. Mammy Pleasant: I don't need the living ones.
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Aunt Susan Sillsby: I'd like to see anybody get out of here. Aunt Susan Sillsby: I always look under the bed but I've never found anything yet. Cecily Young: You're not what Aunt Susan expected, but come out anyway. Paul Jones: I came in here to protect you from the ghost! Aunt Susan Sillsby: All men are alike, only some are worse. Now you get out!
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Paul Jones: Have you ever seen anything that looked like a ghost in this house? Mammy Pleasant: There may be one standing behind you now!
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Annabelle West: What's this all about, Paul? Paul Jones: Don't interrupt me... I think I'm thinking! Paul Jones: The solution of this mystery is in the envelope in Crosby's pocket. Paul Jones: The person named in that envelope is the one who murdered Crosby.
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Movie Trivia:
- The play on which this film is based opened in New York on 7 February 1922 at the National Theater. It closed in May 1922 after 148 performances.
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Keywords:
Heir, Will, Mansion, Lawyer, Death ...[more]
Keywords All:
Black Cat, Millionaire, Motorcycle Cop, Moth, Based On Stage Play, Aristocrat, Tense, Haunted House, Inheritance, Moving Bookcase, Safe, Milkman, Document, Ghost, Will And Testament, Cat, Humor, Missing Bodies, Murder, Greed, Disappearance, Old Dark House, Inheritance At Stake, Secret Panel, Last Will, Investigator

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Rating: 8.2 out of 10.0 - 65 votes cast total
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