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The Cat and the Canary

A CHILL-AND-CHUCKLE CHASE!...A FORTUNE AT STAKE AND A MONSTER AT LARGE!

6.9/ 1019391h 13m

ComedyHorrorMystery

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

Directed by Elliott Nugent

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Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Wally Campbell

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

Joyce Norman

John Beal

John Beal

Fred Blythe

Douglass Montgomery

Douglass Montgomery

Charles Wilder

Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard

Miss Lu

Elizabeth Patterson

Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Susan

Nydia Westman

Nydia Westman

Cicily

George Zucco

George Zucco

Lawyer Crosby