
The Cat and the Canary
The mystery thriller of the stage filmed with new effects!
1927 en 87 minutes
Rating: 6.8
Plot
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
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Cast

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)

Joe Murphy
Milkman (uncredited)