The Cat Creeps

For the unrelated later film, see The Cat Creeps (1946 film).

The Cat Creeps
Title lobby card.
Directed by	Rupert Julian John Willard
Produced by	Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Written by	William J. Hurlbut Gladys Lehman
Starring	Helen Twelvetrees Raymond Hackett Neil Hamilton
Music by	Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Maurice Pivar
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	November 10, 1930 (1930-11-10)
Running time	71 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

The Cat Creeps is a 1930 American pre-Code crime/mystery film, and a sound remake of The Cat and the Canary (1927). Starring Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Jean Hersholt, and Montagu Love, it is considered to be a lost film.

Production

A Spanish-language version, La Voluntad del Muerto, starring Lupita Tovar and directed by George Melford, was filmed by Universal Pictures at night on the same sets used for The Cat Creeps during the day.

In the documentary The Young and the Dead, the husband of the lead actress Helen Twelvetrees creates a video tribute due to her illness and shows part of her memorial service. He states that he became her agent during the filming of the movie and married her shortly after filming ended.

Elizabeth Patterson later reprised her role of Susan in the 1939 remake, The Cat and the Canary.

Preservation status

No prints or negatives of The Cat Creeps are known to exist, only some stills and the soundtrack. A few clips do survive in a short film produced by Universal entitled Boo! (1932).

See also

• List of lost films
• List of incomplete or partially lost films

External links

• The Cat Creeps at IMDb
• The Cat Creeps at AllMovie