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    The Cat and the Canary

    The Cat and the Canary

    "A CHILL-AND-CHUCKLE CHASE!...A FORTUNE AT STAKE AND A MONSTER AT LARGE!"

    1939

    1:13:26

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    7.0/10 (76)

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    The Cat and the Canary

    Genre

    Comedy
    Horror
    Mystery

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Elliott Nugent

    Writers

    John Willard, Walter DeLeon, Lynn Starling,

    Stars

    Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery, Gale Sondergaard,