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cat and the canary


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At first, this didn't seem much like the other Paul Leni films I'd seen.
Ya gotcha long hallway, with fluttering drapery....


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...and the extreme angles, to enhance the sense of altered reality...
....and then...

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...this lighting...


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...shows up and knocks all the cliches right off the screen.

The Cat and the Canary (1927)
directed by Paul Leni
cinematography by Gilbert Warrenton
art direction by Charles D Hall

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