The Cat and the Canary

7.1

/10

1h 20mHorror Comedy Mystery

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.

Spoken language: xx

Starring Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor, Flora Finch, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Martha Mattox, George Siegmann, Lucien Littlefield

Watch "The Cat and the Canary" from streaming services Amazon Prime, Flixfling, Flixfling Purchase and several more released in 1927. It's a horror and comedy movie, and has a rating of 7.1 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.