The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary
Overview
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.
Reviews (2)
CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)
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 (Rated: 4)
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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