The Case of the Black Cat

Movie

Crime

Mystery

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm

Date: 10/31/1936

Rating: 6.6

Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan, Craig Reynolds, Carlyle Moore Jr., Bill Elliott, Nedda Harrigan, Garry Owen, Harry Davenport, George Rosener, Gordon Hart, Clarence Wilson, Guy Usher, Lottie Williams, Harry Hayden, Earl Askam, Don Downen, Kenneth Gibson, Sol Gorss, Harrison Greene, Chuck Hamilton, Milton Kibbee, Paul Kruger, John Marston, Edward McWade, Lyle Moraine, Paul Panzer, Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, John Sheehan, Billy Wayne, Claire White, Tom Wilson, Frank Bruno

Ricardo Cortez