The Cat and the Canary (1927)
The mystery thriller of the stage filmed with new effects!
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
- 1927-08-20
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (89)
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Comedy, Horror, Mystery
- Director
- Paul Leni
Casting
- Laura La Plante — Annabelle West
- Creighton Hale — Paul Jones
- Forrest Stanley — Charles Wilder
- Tully Marshall — Roger Crosby
- Gertrude Astor — Cecily
- Flora Finch — Susan
- Arthur Edmund Carewe — Harry
- Martha Mattox — Mammy Pleasant
- George Siegmann — The Guard
- Lucien Littlefield — Ira Lazar
- Hal Craig — Policeman (uncredited)
- Billy Engle — Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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