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The Cat and the Canary

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

5.7(47)19781h 38m2

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.

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Released
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Language
English
  • based on play or musical
  • remake
  • black cat

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United Kingdom

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG1 Nov 1978

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The Cat and the Canary was released on 1 November 1978.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    6/4/2023

    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 the one who will inherit the devious old man's fortune is left (or not…

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    Wuchak

    11/26/2023

    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 considered THE 'old dark house' tale and so four feature films were made …

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