The Cat and the Canary (1939)
A CHILL-AND-CHUCKLE CHASE!...A FORTUNE AT STAKE AND A MONSTER AT LARGE!
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
- Date of release
- 1939-10-27
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (87)
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Comedy, Horror, Mystery
- Director
- Elliott Nugent
Casting
- Bob Hope — Wally Campbell
- Paulette Goddard — Joyce Norman
- John Beal — Fred Blythe
- Douglass Montgomery — Charles Wilder
- Gale Sondergaard — Miss Lu
- Elizabeth Patterson — Aunt Susan
- Nydia Westman — Cicily
- George Zucco — Lawyer Crosby
- John Wray — Hendricks
- George Regas — Indian Guide
- Milton Kibbee — Reporter
- Charles Lane — Reporter
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