The Cat and the Canary

I don’t need to be told that this influenced James Whale. It obviously influenced James Whale. Una O’Connor could play the maid. It’s a campy little horror comedy, based on a play by John Willard, The Cat and the Canary is Paul Leni coming to Hollywood, using Hollywood money (well, Universal money) to adapt his proto-German Expressionistic visuals to an America film, and it’s a surprisingly amusing little affair, one of those formative films from the late silent era that helped build and gui...