{"id":14029,"date":"2015-12-07T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14029"},"modified":"2020-08-11T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:42:07","slug":"z-view-the-cat-and-the-canary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14029","title":{"rendered":"Z-View: &#8220;The Cat and the Canary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z120715zview_catcanary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"771\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>The Cat and the Canary<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; [1939]<br \/>\nDirector: <strong>Elliott Nugent<\/strong><br \/>\nScreenplay: <strong>Walter DeLeon<\/strong> and <strong>Lynn Starling<\/strong> based on the stage play by <strong>John Willard<br \/>\n<\/strong>Starring: <strong>Bob Hope<\/strong> and <strong>Paulette Goddard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Pitch:<\/strong> \u201dHey, let\u2019s team <strong>Bob Hope<\/strong> in a film with <strong>Paulette Goddard<\/strong>.&nbsp; We could do a remake of the<strong> 1927<\/strong> silent film <em><strong>The Cat and the Canary<\/strong><\/em> which is based on the <strong>1922<\/strong> stage play of the same name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Tagline:<\/strong> \u201cA Chill-and-Chuckle Chase!&#8230; A Fortune at Stake and a Monster at Large!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Overview<\/strong>:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ten years after the death of an eccentric millionaire, <strong>Cyrus Norman<\/strong>, his remaining family members are brought to his spooky-looking mansion deep in the bayou.&nbsp; Before the will is read, his former caretaker informs the group that the spirits have said one of them will die that night. Sadly there is no way to leave the mansion until the next day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Norman<\/strong> left two wills: The first leaves everything to <strong>Paulette Goddard<\/strong> [much to the disappointment of all except <strong>Bob Hope<\/strong>]; the second will is to be opened only if <strong>Goddard<\/strong> dies or goes insane before the month is out.&nbsp; The second will leaves everything to one of the others [although who is unknown until <strong>Goddard<\/strong> dies] which of course puts <strong>Goddard\u2019s<\/strong> life in danger.&nbsp; To make matters worse, the group learns that a homicidal maniac known as <strong>the Cat<\/strong> has escaped from a nearby insane asylum and is in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the night wears on things get progressively worse &#8211; lights go on and off, people disappear, real eyes in paintings are watching, secret passages are found and what? Someone has been murdered!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z120715zview_catcanary_cast.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cat and the Canary&nbsp; [1939] Director: Elliott Nugent Screenplay: Walter DeLeon and Lynn Starling based on the stage play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24361,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions\/24361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}