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.
Honor Blackman
as Susan Sillsby
Edward Fox
as Hendricks
Michael Callan
as Paul Jones
Wendy Hiller
as Alison Crosby
Olivia Hussey
as Cicily Young
Carol Lynley
as Annabelle West
Beatrix Lehmann
as Mrs. Pleasant
Daniel Massey
as Dr. Harry Blythe
Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Cyrus West
Peter McEnery
as Charlie Wilder
CinemaSerf
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 su...
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**_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) wa...