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Oct 27, 1939
73 min
Full-HD

The Cat and the Canary (1939)

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.

Category

Comedy Horror Mystery

Country

United States of America

Companies

Paramount Pictures

Bob Hope

Wally Campbell

Paulette Goddard

Joyce Norman

John Beal

Fred Blythe

Douglass Montgomery

Charles Wilder

Gale Sondergaard

Miss Lu

Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Susan

Nydia Westman

Cicily

George Zucco

Lawyer Crosby

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