The Cat and the Canary
A CHILL-AND-CHUCKLE CHASE!...A FORTUNE AT STAKE AND A MONSTER AT LARGE!
1939 | 73m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Elliott Nugent |
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| Writer: | Lynn Starling, Walter DeLeon |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 27, 1939 |
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| Director: | Elliott Nugent |
| Writer: | Lynn Starling, Walter DeLeon |
| Genres: | Comedy, Horror, Mystery |
| Keywords | cat, louisiana, alligator, bayou, based on play or musical, eccentric, inheritance, last will and testament, mansion, housekeeper, black cat, bookcase, murder mystery |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Bob Hope | Wally Campbell |
| Paulette Goddard | Joyce Norman |
| John Beal | Fred Blythe |
| Douglass Montgomery | Charles Wilder |
| Gale Sondergaard | Miss Lu |
| Elizabeth Patterson | Aunt Susan |
| Nydia Westman | Cicily |
| George Zucco | Lawyer Crosby |
| John Wray | Hendricks |
| George Regas | Indian Guide |
| Milton Kibbee | Reporter |
| Charles Lane | Reporter |
| Frank Melton | Reporter |
| Nick Thompson | Indian Guide |
| Chief Thundercloud | Indian Guide |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Elliott Nugent | Director |
| Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Archie Marshek | Editor |
| Charles Lang | Director of Photography |
| Philip Wisdom | Sound Recordist |
| Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Lynn Starling | Screenplay |
| Ernst Toch | Original Music Composer |
| Andrea Setaro | Music Arranger |
| Robert Usher | Art Direction |
| A. E. Freudeman | Set Decoration |
| John Willard | Theatre Play |
| Richard Olson | Sound Recordist |
| Walter DeLeon | Screenplay |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Arthur Hornblow Jr. | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 4 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 4 |
| 2025 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
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