The Unseen (1945 film)
| The Unseen | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Lewis Allen |
| Written by | Adaptation: Hagar Wilde Ken Englund |
| Screenplay by | Hagar Wilde Raymond Chandler |
| Produced by | John Houseman |
| Starring | Joel McCrea Gail Russell Herbert Marshall |
| Narrated by | Ray Collins |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Edited by | Doane Harrison |
| Music by | Ernst Toch |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Unseen is a 1945 film directed by Lewis Allen that starred Joel McCrea. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Loren L. Ryder),[1] and is based on the novel Midnight House (US title: Her Heart in Her Throat) by Ethel Lina White.
The film was Paramount's follow-up to The Uninvited (1944).
Raymond Chandler was one of the writers of the script.
Plot
At 11 Crescent Drive in a New England village, an unseen killer strangles a woman. Young Barnaby Fielding witnesses this from his window at 10 Crescent and later retrieves the victim's watch.
The boy's new governess, Elizabeth Howard, is unaware at first how attached Barnaby had become to Maxine, his former one. And the boy's father, David, does not take the watch to police because in the past he had been suspected of murdering his wife.
Marian Tygarth, a widow who owns the shuttered-up 11 Crescent, returns to put the house up for sale. Elizabeth, meantime, is accosted by an unseen man and confides in Dr. Evans, a neighbor.
Maxine is found dead and David is missing, causing police to consider him the prime suspect. Marian catches the killer in the act and becomes his next victim. Elizabeth tries to protect Barnaby from his father, whom she has come to love, but it turns out that Dr. Evans is the one responsible for the crimes.
Cast
- Joel McCrea as David Fielding
- Gail Russell as Elizabeth Howard
- Herbert Marshall as Dr. Charles Evans
- Phyllis Brooks as Maxine
- Isobel Elsom as Marian Tygarth
- Norman Lloyd as Jasper Goodwin
- Mikhail Rasumny as Chester
- Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Norris
References
- ^ "The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
External links
- The Unseen at IMDb
- The Unseen at AllMovie
- The Unseen at the TCM Movie Database
- The Unseen film clip on YouTube
