The Cat and the Canary

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.

Cast

Bob Hope

as Wally Campbell

Paulette Goddard

as Joyce Norman

John Beal

as Fred Blythe

Douglass Montgomery

as Charles Wilder

Gale Sondergaard

as Miss Lu

Elizabeth Patterson

as Aunt Susan

Nydia Westman

as Cicily

George Zucco

as Lawyer Crosby

John Wray

as Hendricks

George Regas

as Indian Guide

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