The cat and the canary : Haunted spooks / Kino International ; produced for video by David Shepard ; [special contents by Film Preservation Association].
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
1997
Description:
1 videocassette (102 min.) : silent, color tinted and black and white ; 1/2 in.
Cat and the canary: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor, Flora Finch, Atrhur Edmund Carew, Martha Mattox, George Siegmann, Lucien Littlefield. Cat and the Canary is based on the stage play by John Willard. Haunted spooks: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace Howe. Originally produced as two individual motion pictures in 1927 and 1920 respectively. VHS; digitally mastered.
Contents:
Cat and the canary (1927, 81 min.) / Carl Laemmle presents; adaptation by Robert F. Hill & Alfred A. Cohn; scenario by Alfred A. Cohn; directed by Paul Leni; A Universal production -- Haunted spooks (1920, 21 min.) / Hal Roach presents; directed by Hal Roack and Alf Goulding; Pathécomedy.
Summary:
In The cat and the canary a beautiful heiress to a possible fortune, is menaced by a mysterious killer disguised as a hideous monster. In Haunted spooks a man who is quite unlucky at love gets involved in a scheme with a young woman who needs a husband in order to inherit a house, a hauned house.
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