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Directed by | Henry Levin |
Written by | Carlton E. Morse Charles O'Neal Dwight V. Babcock |
Based on | radio playFaith, Hope and Charity Sisters byMalcolm Stuart Boylan and Julian Harmon |
Produced by | Wallace MacDonald |
Starring | Karen Morley Jim Bannon Jeff Donnell |
Narrated by | Frank Martin |
Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
Edited by | Art Seid (as Arthur Seid) |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Unknown is a 1946 Americanmystery film directed byHenry Levin made byColumbia Pictures as the third and final part of itsI Love a Mystery series based on the popular radio program.[1] The previous films wereI Love a Mystery (1945) andThe Devil's Mask (1946).[2]
The film is a loose adaptation of the I Love a Mystery radio episodeFaith, Hope, and Charity, Sisters,[3] which was remade in a later version of the radio series, in '49, asThe Thing That Cries in the Night, starring Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall as the private detectives, and Mercedes MacCambridge as the stewardess and Cherry (Charity).
It is also known asThe Coffin.[4]
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TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, describing it 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".[5]
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