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

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman

as Susan Sillsby

Edward Fox

Edward Fox

as Hendricks

Michael Callan

Michael Callan

as Paul Jones

Wendy Hiller

Wendy Hiller

as Alison Crosby

Olivia Hussey

Olivia Hussey

as Cicily Young

Carol Lynley

Carol Lynley

as Annabelle West

Beatrix Lehmann

Beatrix Lehmann

as Mrs. Pleasant

Daniel Massey

Daniel Massey

as Dr. Harry Blythe

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Wilfrid Hyde-White

as Cyrus West

Peter McEnery

Peter McEnery

as Charlie Wilder

Reviews

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...

Wuchak

**_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...

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