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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
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17 August 1945 (USA)
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Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters...
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1940s Censorship Required A Different Ending...
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(Complete credited cast) | 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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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.
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I strongly disagree with Norm Vogel's comments regarding Leonard Maltin's remark about "censorship" and the ending. Without giving the ending away, I can only say that because of the strict censorship code that existed in 1945, the ending HAD TO BE CHANGED to conform with the rules involving crime and punishment. Thus, the film is weakened in straying from the original ending that was used in the stage play on which this is based--and which had more impact.
George Sanders gives a quietly effective performance as the harried man torn between two sisters, one of whom has a neurotic stranglehold on his affections (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Interesting melodrama given taut direction by Robert Siodmak. Ella Raines is effective in a sympathetic role and Geraldine Fitzgerald is fascinating as a hypochondriac, whining sister who makes Harry's life miserable.
Again, Leonard Maltin was right--censorship had everything to do with the ending.