The Cat and the Canary (1939)

  • NR
  • 11/10/1939 (US)
  • Comedy, Horror, Mystery
  • 1h 13m

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

Overview

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.

Elliott Nugent

Director

Lynn Starling

Screenplay

Walter DeLeon

Screenplay

Cast

Bob Hope's headshot

Bob Hope

Wally Campbell
Paulette Goddard's headshot

Paulette Goddard

Joyce Norman
John Beal's headshot

John Beal

Fred Blythe
Douglass Montgomery's headshot

Douglass Montgomery

Charles Wilder
Gale Sondergaard's headshot

Gale Sondergaard

Miss Lu
Elizabeth Patterson's headshot

Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Susan
Nydia Westman's headshot

Nydia Westman

Cicily
George Zucco's headshot

George Zucco

Lawyer Crosby

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