The Cat and the Canary
“The mystery thriller of the stage filmed with new effects!”
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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Cast
13 people
Laura La Plante
Annabelle West
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Creighton Hale
Paul Jones
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Forrest Stanley
Charles Wilder
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Tully Marshall
Roger Crosby
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Gertrude Astor
Cecily
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Flora Finch
Susan
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Arthur Edmund Carewe
Harry
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The Phantom of the Opera
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Martha Mattox
Mammy Pleasant
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George Siegmann
The Guard
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The Birth of a Nation
Lucien Littlefield
Ira Lazar
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Hal Craig
Policeman (uncredited)
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Billy Engle
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Paul Leni Director · Alfred A. Cohn Screenplay Robert F. Hill Screenplay
Worldwide gross $326K · United States release September 9, 1927 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$325,550
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · August 14, 1927
Premiere · Detroit, Michigan
United States · September 9, 1927
Theatrical
Australia
January 21, 1928 · Theatrical
Canada
August 20, 1927 · Theatrical · Montréal
Denmark
September 21, 1927 · Theatrical
Finland
January 22, 1928 · Theatrical
Italy
July 15, 1929 · Theatrical
Mexico
September 3, 1927 · Theatrical
Netherlands
November 25, 2011 · Theatrical
Poland
December 19, 1927 · Theatrical
Portugal
April 30, 1929 · Theatrical
May 1, 1965 · Limited theatrical
June 25, 1976 · Limited theatrical · Porto (Cineclube do Porto)
Spain
January 20, 1928 · Theatrical · Madrid
United Kingdom
October 3, 1927 · Theatrical
April 15, 2024 · Physical
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