The Cat and the Canary
Released: August 20, 1927Runtime: 87 min
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
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Laura La Plante
as Annabelle West
Creighton Hale
as Paul Jones
Forrest Stanley
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Tully Marshall
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Gertrude Astor
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Flora Finch
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Arthur Edmund Carewe
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Martha Mattox
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George Siegmann
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Lucien Littlefield
as Doctor Ira Lazar
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