The Unseen (1945 film)
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Director Lewis Allen Music director Ernst Toch Country United States | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date May 12, 1945 (1945-05-12) (United States) Based on the novel Her Heart in Her Throat
by Ethel Lina White Writer Ethel Lina White (novel), Hagar Wilde (adaptation), Ken Englund (adaptation), Hagar Wilde, Raymond Chandler Screenplay Raymond Chandler, Hagar Wilde, Ken Englund Cast Joel McCrea (David Fielding), Gail Russell (Elizabeth Howard), Herbert Marshall (Dr. Charles Evans), Phyllis Brooks (Maxine), Isobel Elsom (Marian Tygarth), Norman Lloyd (Jasper Goodwin)Similar movies Mysterious Intruder , The Whistler , The Big Sleep , Double Indemnity , Babel , Big Momma's House 2 Tagline Menace more deadly than | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Unseen is a 1945 America film noir mystery film directed by Lewis Allen that starred Joel McCrea. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Loren L. Ryder), and is based on the novel Midnight House (US title: Her Heart in Her Throat) by Ethel Lina White.
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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.
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References
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