The Cat and the Canary (1939)
A CHILL-AND-CHUCKLE CHASE!...A FORTUNE AT STAKE AND A MONSTER AT LARGE!
72 min
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
- Release date
- October 27, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Ernst Toch
Where to watch
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Trailer
Cast
- Bob Hope as Wally Campbell
- Paulette Goddard as Joyce Norman
- John Beal as Fred Blythe
- Douglass Montgomery as Charlie Wilder
- Gale Sondergaard as Miss Lu
- Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Susan
- Nydia Westman as Cicily
- George Zucco as Lawyer Crosby
- John Wray as Hendricks
- George Regas as Indian Guide
- Milton Kibbee as Reporter
- Charles Lane as Reporter
- Frank Melton as Reporter
- Nick Thompson as Indian Guide
- Chief Thundercloud as Indian Guide
Crew
- Elliott Nugent · Director
- Walter DeLeon · Writer
- Lynn Starling · Writer
- John Willard · Writer
- Arthur Hornblow Jr. · Producer
- Ernst Toch · Composer
- Charles Lang · Cinematographer
- Archie Marshek · Editor