The Unknown (1946 film)

The Unknown
Directed by Henry Levin
Produced by Wallace MacDonald
Written by Carlton E. Morse
Charles O'Neal
Dwight V. Babcock
Based on radio play Faith, Hope and Charity Sisters by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Julian Harmon
Starring Karen Morley
Jim Bannon
Jeff Donnell
Narrated by Frank Martin
Music by Alexander Steinert (uncredited)
Cinematography Henry Freulich
Edited by Art Seid (as Arthur Seid)
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
 4 July 1946 (US)
Running time
 70 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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.[1] The previous films were I Love a Mystery (1945) and The Devil's Mask (1946).[2]

It was a loose adaptation of the I Love a Mystery radio episode Faith, Hope, and Charity, Sisters[3], which was remade in a later version of the radio series, in '49, as The 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) (The title is not listed in the Wikipedia episode guide, but may be under the title Murder, Hollywood Style or Hollywood Cherry).

It was known as The Coffin.[4]

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 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]

References

  1. ↑ "The Unknown". BFI.
  2. ↑ "The "I Love A Mystery" Movie Page". angelfire.com.
  3. ↑ Second Feature: the Best of the 'B' Films, John Cocchi, 1991, Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group
  4. ↑ Special to THE NEW,YORK TIMES. (1946, Mar 09). NEWS OF THE SCREEN. New York Times (1923-Current File) Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/docview/107495162?accountid=13902
  5. ↑ "The Unknown". TVGuide.com.


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