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The Cat and the Canary is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Elliott Nugent released in USA on 10 november 1939 with Bob Hope
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
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Add to a movie listThe Cat and the Canary starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard is a 1939 comedy horror film remake of the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary, which was based on the 1922 play of the same name by John Willard. The film was directed by Elliott Nugent.
Universal Home Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2010 as part of the Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories Collection and again in 2011 individually as a part of their "Universal Vault Series" on Amazon.com.
Synopsis
Cyrus Norman was a millionaire who lived in the Louisiana bayous with his mistress Miss Lu (Gale Sondergaard). Norman died ten years previous, and now an American Indian man (George Regas) paddles the executor of Norman's estate, Mr. Crosby (George Zucco), through alligator-infested waters to Norman's isolated mansion, where his will is to be read at midnight. At the mansion, Crosby meets Miss Lu, who lives there with a large black cat. When he removes the will from a safe, he discovers that someone has tampered with it.Actors
Bob Hope
(Wally Campbell)
Paulette Goddard
(Joyce Norman)
John Beal
(Fred Blythe)
Douglass Montgomery
(Charles Wilder)
Gale Sondergaard
(Miss Lu)
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