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THE CAT & THE CANARY: LIVE SCORE FUNDRAISER FOR SCARECROW
1927
Director
Paul Leni
Starring
Laura La Plante
Forrest Stanley
Creighton Hale
Flora Finch
Runtime
82 minutes
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Scarecrow Video's VIVA! PHYSICAL MEDIA presents THE CAT & THE CANARY with a live score by COREY J. BREWER!
After writing and performing a live original score for the seminal 1927 spooky-house thriller comedy silent film THE CAT & THE CANARY at the Lincoln Theatre in Mt. Vernon, The Grand Cinema in Tacoma and The Tomorrow Theater in Portland, Corey J. Brewer is bringing it to "THE Movie House of Movie Houses", The Beacon Cinema.
Why? Because Scarecrow Video needs our help. Best way to raise funds? If the movies have taught us anything, it's by putting on a show! So, come out, dig deep, and SAVE SCARECROW.
ABOUT THE FILM:
A Broadway hit that helped to launch the theatrical craze for “old dark house” thrillers, John Willard’s 1922 play THE CAT & THE CANARY was already starting to seem old hat by the time Universal acquired it in 1927. But Universal chief Carl Laemmle had the inspiration to send to Germany for Paul Leni, a promising young director who had blended the shadowy lighting and tortured perspectives of German Expressionism with more commercial material for his acclaimed WAXWORKS (1922). And so was born the look and feel of Universal’s classic horror films. Laura La Plante is the first-generation scream queen, a stylish young woman invited to a decaying mansion for the midnight reading of a will, along with half a dozen other scheming heirs and likely suspects. Who will survive and what will be left of them?!
After writing and performing a live original score for the seminal 1927 spooky-house thriller comedy silent film THE CAT & THE CANARY at the Lincoln Theatre in Mt. Vernon, The Grand Cinema in Tacoma and The Tomorrow Theater in Portland, Corey J. Brewer is bringing it to "THE Movie House of Movie Houses", The Beacon Cinema.
Why? Because Scarecrow Video needs our help. Best way to raise funds? If the movies have taught us anything, it's by putting on a show! So, come out, dig deep, and SAVE SCARECROW.
ABOUT THE FILM:
A Broadway hit that helped to launch the theatrical craze for “old dark house” thrillers, John Willard’s 1922 play THE CAT & THE CANARY was already starting to seem old hat by the time Universal acquired it in 1927. But Universal chief Carl Laemmle had the inspiration to send to Germany for Paul Leni, a promising young director who had blended the shadowy lighting and tortured perspectives of German Expressionism with more commercial material for his acclaimed WAXWORKS (1922). And so was born the look and feel of Universal’s classic horror films. Laura La Plante is the first-generation scream queen, a stylish young woman invited to a decaying mansion for the midnight reading of a will, along with half a dozen other scheming heirs and likely suspects. Who will survive and what will be left of them?!