The Cat and the Canary

For God's Sake, Stay in Your Rooms and Lock the Doors!

5.719781h 38m
PG
Released
Horror
Comedy
Mystery

Overview

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.

StatusReleased
Release Date1978-11-01
Runtime1h 38m
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesUnited Kingdom

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Reviews

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CinemaSerf

Jun 4, 2023

6/10

Radley Metzger manages to gather quite a decent cast in this 1978 iteration of John Willard's play. Wilfred Hyde-White plays a recently deceased millionaire who has gathered his potential heirs to hear his will - delivered by him via film. What follows is a Cluedo-esque sequence of events as each suspects and conspires against the other until only

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Wuchak

Nov 26, 2023

4/10

**_Squabbling money-hungry family members at a vacant mansion in England_** On a stormy night in 1934, several potential heirs meet at a manor in the sticks outside London for the reading of the will, which was put on film by the old man (Wilfrid Hyde-White). "The Cat and the Canary" (1978) was based on the stage play from 1922, which was con

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