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This chapter argues that Leni’s film and the films it influenced—including its own remakes—lent formal and affective shape to what trade magazines of the 1920s and 30s called the thriller-chiller-comedy, inaugurating horror-comedy as a genre.
This page lists adaptations of The Cat and the Canary and works derived from it. Original work: The Cat and the Canary (1922), the original play written by …
The first film version of The Bat, directed by Roland West, appeared in 1926 (West remade it in the sound era as The Bat Whispers in 1930), but The Cat and the Canary, directed by Paul Leni for Universal, is generally acknowledged as the more influential movie for two reasons.
‘THE CAT AND THE CANARY’ is a brilliant comedy spook show with Bob Hope illustrating that he was not only unrivalled in the manic scare category but also as a romantic lead and his chemistry with Paulette Goddard was amazing and as the two try to unravel the mystery – such as the murder of Mr. Crosby, an escaped lunatic from a nearby ...
Oct 3, 2024 · The Cat and the Canary borrows a lot from Gothic traditions, with a particular debt to Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, which itself yielded two famous silent versions, both in 1928.
Oct 24, 2017 · The Cat and the Canary (1927) (Paul Leni, US 1927, 84 min., 16mm) Silent Tuesdays. Paul Leni came from Germany to work for Universal in 1927 and was really the founder of the studio’s reputation for horror films, starting with this iconic adaptation of John Willard’s hugely popular “old dark house” play The Cat and the Canary (which ...
Jul 11, 2011 · All of these Old Dark House films featured big gloomy old mansions, a line-up of people from different walks of fashionable society, a mad killer that usually went by the name of some animal and an end revelation where what was going on was shown to be a highly contrived plot to drive the heroine mad/obtain an inheritance or treasure and so on.
