The Cat and the Canary
“For God's Sake, Stay in Your Rooms and Lock the Doors!”
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.
Radley Metzger
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Geronimo1967
2y ago
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 for...
Wuchak
2y ago
**_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 feat...
