The Black Cat
Even Ladd is scared!
1941 | 70m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Albert S. Rogell |
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| Writer: | Frederic I. Rinaldo, Robert Lees, Robert Neville, Eric Taylor |
| Staring: |
| Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first. | |
| Release Date: | May 02, 1941 |
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| Director: | Albert S. Rogell |
| Writer: | Frederic I. Rinaldo, Robert Lees, Robert Neville, Eric Taylor |
| Genres: | Comedy, Horror, Mystery |
| Keywords | lightning, crematorium, wheelchair, murder, inheritance, last will and testament, spoof, horror spoof, black and white, old dark house, housekeeper, hanging, gardener, black cat, dead cat, heir, thunder, secret passageway, old woman murdered, murder by gunshot, cat lover, foggy night, poisoning, cats, scary house, greedy heirs |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $178,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 28, 2026 Entered: Apr 17, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Basil Rathbone | Montague Hartley |
| Hugh Herbert | Mr. Penny |
| Broderick Crawford | Hubert A. Gilmore 'Gil' Smith |
| Bela Lugosi | Eduardo Vidos |
| Anne Gwynne | Elaine Winslow |
| Gladys Cooper | Myrna Hartley |
| Gale Sondergaard | Abigail Doone |
| Cecilia Loftus | Henrietta Winslow |
| Alan Ladd | Richard Hartley |
| Claire Dodd | Margaret Gordon |
| John Eldredge | Stanley Borden |
| Erville Alderson | Doctor Williams (uncredited) |
| Harry C. Bradley | Coroner (uncredited) |
| Jack Cheatham | Moving Man #1 (uncredited) |
| Edgar Sherrod | Minister (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ted J. Kent | Editor |
| Vera West | Costume Design |
| Frederic I. Rinaldo | Screenplay |
| Hans J. Salter | Music Director, Music |
| Jack Otterson | Art Direction |
| Russell A. Gausman | Set Decoration |
| John P. Fulton | Visual Effects |
| Ralph Freed | Music |
| Charles Henderson | Music |
| Charles Previn | Music |
| Howard Christie | Assistant Director |
| Ralph M. DeLacy | Art Department Assistant |
| Bernard B. Brown | Sound Supervisor |
| Hal Bumbaugh | Sound |
| William Schwartz | Sound |
| Jack Rosenstein | Unit Publicist |
| Albert S. Rogell | Director |
| Robert Lees | Screenplay |
| Robert Neville | Screenplay |
| Eric Taylor | Screenplay |
| Stanley Cortez | Director of Photography |
| Frank Skinner | Music |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Burt Kelly | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 7 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 3 | 817 | 867 |