The Unknown
Directed by	Henry Levin
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
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)
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	1946 (1946)
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Unknown is a 1946 American horror 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]

Contents

• Plot
• Cast
• Production
• Critical reception
• References
• External links

The film is 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).

Plot

A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.

Cast

Production

It is also known as The Coffin. ^[4] Filming stated in April 1946. ^[5]

Critical reception

Variety wrote the film was an "effective spine-tingling fare for the horror hounds. < All the usual scarifying gimmicks are thrown into the works including an antique mansion with subterranean passageways, elemented inmates, a hooded shadow, and a couple of stabbings. Accent in the pic is less on -the whodunit elements than on an out-and-out attempt to shock the patrons into frightened squeals." ^[6]

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". ^[7]

References

External links

• The Unknown at IMDb
• The Unknown at AFI
• The Uknown at Letterbox DVD
• The Uknown at TCM

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