The Cat and the Canary

September. 09,1927      NR
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Laura La Plante as  Annabelle West
Creighton Hale as  Paul Jones
Forrest Stanley as  Charles Wilder
Tully Marshall as  Roger Crosby
Gertrude Astor as  Cecily
Flora Finch as  Susan
Arthur Edmund Carewe as  Harry
Martha Mattox as  Mammy Pleasant
George Siegmann as  The Guard
Lucien Littlefield as  Ira Lazar

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