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6.8/10   145 votes
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Director:
Robert Siodmak
Writers:
Thomas Job (play)
Keith Winter (adaptation)
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Release Date:
17 August 1945 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Film-Noir more
Plot:
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Good melodrama more

Cast

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George Sanders ... Harry Melville Quincey

Geraldine Fitzgerald ... Lettie Quincey

Ella Raines ... Deborah Brown
Sara Allgood ... Nona
Moyna MacGill ... Hester Quincy (as Moyna Macgill)
Samuel S. Hinds ... Dr. Adams
Harry von Zell ... Ben (as Harry VonZell)
Judy Clark ... Helen
Coulter Irwin ... Biff Wagner (as Coulter F. Irwin)
Craig Reynolds ... John Warren
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Guilty of Murder? (USA) (reissue title)
Uncle Harry (UK)
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Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Filming Locations:
New Hampshire, USA

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The film was previewed with five different endings and the existing one (a complete departure from the play) was selected for reasons of popular response and censorship, prompting the resignation of producer Joan Harrison from Universal Pictures. more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Good melodrama, 16 September 2000
4/10
Author: Christine (christine_pt@hotmail.com) from Lisbon, Portugal

I voted 5 for "The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry", but maybe it was a bit unfair, because the film is good. I liked it, but I expected more from the title... I feel they could've done something even better with that script. Something seems to be missing. I think that what is most accomplished in this picture is the idea of "incest", because you can't deny there is some sort of sexual attraction between Harry (George Sanders) and Lettie (Geraldine Fitzgerald). That is shown in a subtle way and it is, in my opinion, one of the themes of the film.

The other theme is of course that dependence between the brother and the two sisters. The sisters depend on him for money and he depends on them to be taken care of.

I can't help comparing Siodmak's work with that of Alfred Hitchcock. It always looks like Hitchcock could do better, but then you would loose Siodmak's touch and I don't think that would be good.

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