The Cat and the Canary(Movie, 1927)

Name: The Cat and the Canary
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Mystery
Released: 1927
Duration: T01:48:00
Rating: 3.5

1h 48min | Genres: Horror, Comedy, Mystery

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

The Cat and the Canary is a 1927 American silent comedy horror film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. An adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black-comedy play of the same name, the film stars Laura La Plante as Annabelle West, Forrest Stanley as Charlie Wilder, and Creighton Hale as Paul Jones. The plot revolves around the death of Cyrus West, who is Annabelle, Charlie, and Paul's uncle, and the reading of his will twenty years later. Annabelle inherits her uncle's fortune, but when she and her family spend the night in his haunted mansion, they are stalked by a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, a lunatic mainly known as the Cat escapes from an asylum and hides in the mansion. The film is part of the genre of comedy horror films inspired by 1920s Broadway stage plays. Leni's adaptation of Willard's play blended expressionism with humor, a style for which Leni was notable and recognized by critics a... ()

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About The Cat and the Canary

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.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York

Based on: "The Cat and the Canary" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Universal Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: No Language (XX)

Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 09/09/1927

Cast: Laura La Plante, Forrest Stanley, Creighton Hale, Flora Finch, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann

Director: Paul Leni

Producer: Paul Kohner, Carl Laemmle

Screenwriter: Alfred A. Cohn, Robert F. Hill, Walter Anthony

Director of Photography: Gilbert Warrenton

Composer: Hugo Riesenfeld

Production Designer: Charles D. Hall

Keywords: silent film, expressionism, based on play or musical, old dark house, last will and testament, black and white, aristocrat, haunted house

Revenue: 325,550 USD

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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