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The Cat and the Canary (1939)

The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Comedy Horror Mystery

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

Release Date: 1939, October 27
Directors: Elliott Nugent
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: John Wray, Charles Lane, Milton Kibbee, Paulette Goddard, Nick Thompson, John Beal, Bob Hope, George Zucco, Douglass Montgomery, Nydia Westman, Elizabeth Patterson, Gale Sondergaard

Overview:

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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