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| 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, Adventure, Romance, Horror, Mystery | 
| Keywords | lightning, cat, crematorium, wheelchair, murder, spoof, black and white, old dark house, housekeeper, gardener, black cat, dead cat, heir, thunder, secret passageway, foggy night, poisoning | 
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $0 Budget: $178,000 | 
| Updates | Updated: Aug 03, 2024 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 | 
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| Stanley Cortez | Director of Photography | 
| Frank Skinner | Music | 
| Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 
| Ted J. Kent | Editor | 
| Vera West | Costume Design | 
| Frederic I. Rinaldo | Screenplay | 
| Hans J. Salter | Music, Music Director | 
| 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 | 
| Name | Title | 
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| Burt Kelly | Producer | 
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| 2025 | 3 | 817 | 867 |