The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary (1939) is a horror-comedy from Paramount you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Elliott Nugent from the hit 1922 Broadway play. Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard lead an ensemble locked inside a creaky Louisiana Gothic mansion for a midnight will reading.

Millionaire Cyrus West died a decade ago, and his heirs have finally gathered at the remote estate to hear who inherits everything. Joyce is named the sole heiress. That same night the lawyer vanishes, a shadowy figure moves through the halls, and the housekeeper's earlier promise — someone will be dead by dawn — stops feeling like folklore. Hope plays Wally Campbell, a wisecracker who can't stop joking even when terrified, and it's that comic nerve running through genuine dread that separates this picture from a straight haunted-house film. Stream The Cat and the Canary (1939) on iFILM.