The Cat and the Canary

• 6.908 Comedy
• 1939-10-27
• 73 minutes mins

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.

Starring:

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) John Wray (Hendricks) George Regas (Indian Guide)

Director:

Elliott Nugent

Writer:

Lynn Starling Walter DeLeon