Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

HIT to hold silent movie night Saturday

By IAN MINIELLY

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IRONWOOD - This Saturday the Historic Ironwood Theatre is showing "The Cat and the Canary," a 1927 silent horror film adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black comedy play.

According to the HIT website, the wealthy Cyrus West is on his deathbed and his nephews and nieces gather around him like cats around a canary to get their greedy mitts on his estate.

Due to the machinations of his family, West inserts a provision in the will that it not be read until 20 years after his death.

During these familial machinations, a mysterious figure stalks the famil...