Paul Leni

Paul Leni

Summary

Portrait of Paul Leni Paul Leni The Cat and the Canary (1927)

But on the night when the will was to be read, there was something more tangible than a ghost in the house.
"I have come to read the will of Cyrus West. Have any of the heirs arrived yet?"
"No, Mr. Crosby."
"You must have been lonely here these twenty years, Mammy Pleasant."
"I don't need the living ones."
"I locked this safe twenty years ago——and now a moth comes out!"
"Who has been in this house?"
"No one but I——and his ghost."
"No ghost could have opened these envelopes——"
"Nobody knows the combination of that safe but——you!"
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Portrait of Paul Leni Paul Leni The Cat and the Canary (1927)

MILLIONAIRE
"Annabelle, I am glad you won even though I lost."
"You're to open this envelope in his room tonight before you retire——it was his last wish."
"I'm going——I didn't want the crazy fool's money, anyway!"
"What is in that envelope she gave to Annabelle?"
"Perhaps it will tell what became of the famous West diamonds."
"——but there is an embarrassing condition attached to this will——"
"A physician is named in the will who must examine the heir and positively establish his or her sanity."
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Portrait of Paul Leni Paul Leni The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Crosby wants to discuss the conditions of the will."
"You are just like your uncle——in a cage, surrounded by cats."
"What did the old woman mean, saying that something terrible would happen tonight?"
"Just an old superstition. When somebody's picture falls, it's a sign of——death!"
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