Movie: "The Black Cat"
| Release Date: | May 1941 |
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| Genres: | Mystery / Horror / Comedy |
| Runtime: | min. |
| Cast: | Basil Rathbone (Montague Hartley), Hugh Herbert (Mr. Penny), Broderick Crawford (Hubert A. Gilmore 'Gil' Smith) Bela Lugosi (Eduardo) Anne Gwynne (Elaine Winslow) Gladys Cooper (Myrna Hartley) Gale Sondergaard (Abigail Doone) Cecilia Loftus (Henrietta Winslow) Claire Dodd (Margaret Gordon) John Eldredge (Stanley Borden) Alan Ladd (Richard Hartley) Erville Alderson (Doctor (uncredited)) Harry C. Bradley (Coroner (uncredited)) Jack Cheatham (A Moving Man (uncredited)) |
Storyline: It appears the health of wealthy spinster Henrietta Winslow, who lives with her pet cats and mysterious servants, is failing. Her greedy relatives descend on the isolated mansion hoping to inherit a portion of her vast fortune. Joining them is Gil Smith, an enterprising real estate broker who hopes Henrietta will sell him the property and his comic sidekick, Mr. Penny, an idiosyncratic furniture dealer who sees a treasure trove of profitable antiques in the mansion. Henrietta's doctor surprises everyone by announcing that his patient has defied the medical predictions and is currently in remission, much to the disappointment of her gathered family. Not content to wait until nature eventually takes her course, someone expedites the process by murdering the old woman with a knitting needle.
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