The cat and the canary [DVD] / Carl Laemmle presents ; adaptation by Robert F. Hill & Alfred A. Cohn ; scenario by Alfred A. Cohn ; directed by Paul Leni ; a Universal production.
Format:
[DVD] /
Publisher:
Image Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2005, c1927
Description:
1 videodisc (85 min.) : si., col. tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + notes (1 p. ; 18 cm.).
From the stage play by John Willard. Includes biographical and production notes by Richard Peterson. Silent film with English intertitles and musical score. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927; restored in 1997. Special features: original music score by Franklin Stover or new music score by Eric Beheim (2004) ; 1920 short film Haunted spooks featuring Harold Lloyd (b&w ; 22 min.). Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor, Flora Finch, Arthur Edmund Carew, Martha Mattox, George Siegmann, Lucien Littlefield.
Summary:
The potential heirs to a large fortune gather at their benefactor's mansion twenty years after his death but the reading of his will is interrupted by a series of disturbing events.
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