The Unknown (1946 film)
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Henry Levin Duration Country United States | 6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Crime, Mystery Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 4 July 1946 (US) Based on radio play Faith, Hope and Charity Sisters by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Julian Harmon Cast (Rachel Martin), (Jack Packard), (Nina Arnold), (Reed Cawthorne (as Robert Scott)), (Richard Arnold), (Doc Long) Similar movies , The Devil's Mask , The Man in Black , Dick Barton: Special Agent , Myrt And Marge , The Shadow Tagline Will Tonight Bring Her...LOVE or DEATH? |
The Unknown is a 1946 mystery film directed by Henry Levin made by Columbia Pictures as the third and final part of its I Love a Mystery series based on the popular radio program. The previous films were I Love a Mystery (1945) and The Devil's Mask (1946).
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Plot

Relatives arrive for the reading of a will at a creepy mansion. Is someone is trying to murder Nina Arnold (Jeff Donnell) to claim a share of her grandmother's legacy, her grandmother who she never met? Could that someone be her emotionally unstable mother Rachel Martin (Karen Morley), from who she was taken when she was a baby? Investigators Jack Packard (Jim Bannon) and Doc Long (Barton Yarborough) are put on the case.
Cast

Critical reception
TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, describing the film as "filled with all the things that are guaranteed to make audiences jump out of their seats, such as hidden passageways, a hooded grave robber, eerie shadows, and mysterious killings."
References
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