La voluntad del muerto
Cast & Crew
Antonio Moreno
Lupita Tovar
Soledad Jiménez
Andrés De Segurola
Manuel Granado
Roberto Guzmán
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Exactly twenty years after the death of the lonely, eccentric millionaire Cyrus West, his descendents are summoned to meet one midnight in his gloomy, old mansion for a very belated reading of his will. West's closest relatives are dismayed to learn that they have been disinherited due to the fact that they believed him to be crazy. Anita, a distant relative, is revealed as the only heir to West's fortune and properties as long as her mental state remains stable. However, the subsequent disappearance of West's lawyer, an attack on cousin Pablo by a "monster" and several other inexplicable events combine to place a great strain on Anita's sanity. Eventually, the police determine that Carlos, another relative and a potential heir, is responsible for the campaign of terror.
Cast
Antonio Moreno
Lupita Tovar
Soledad Jiménez
Andrés De Segurola
Manuel Granado
Roberto Guzmán
Conchita Ballesteros
María Calvo
Lucio Villegas
Agostino Borgato
Nicolás Ruiz
Manuel Ballesteros
Pablo Alvarez
Crew
B. Fernández Cué
C. Roy Hunter
Walter R. Koessler
Paul Kohner
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Carl Laemmle
Jay Marchant
George Melford
Maurice Pivar
George Robinson
Arthur Tavares
Enrique Tovar Avalos
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This film was a simultaneously shot, Spanish-language version of the 1930 film The Cat Creeps, which was directed by Rupert Julian and starred Helen Twelvetrees and Raymond Hackett. The cast and technical credits for the Spanish-language version were annotated from a studio cutting continuity. The play, The Cat and the Canary, had been filmed in 1927 in a version directed by Paul Leni and starring Laura La Plante and Creighton Hale (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.0797) and was again filmed in 1939 with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, directed by Elliott Nugent (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.0626) and, in 1978, as a British production directed by Radley Metzger. La voluntad del muerto was retitled La heredera de Mr. West when exhibited in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1931.
