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7 December 1949 (France)
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Shades of "Gaslight"...
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(Complete credited cast)| Joel McCrea | ... | David Fielding | |
| Gail Russell | ... | Elizabeth Howard | |
| Herbert Marshall | ... | Dr. Charles Evans | |
| Phyllis Brooks | ... | Maxine | |
| Isobel Elsom | ... | Marian Tygarth | |
| Norman Lloyd | ... | Jasper Goodwin | |
| Mikhail Rasumny | ... | Chester | |
| Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Mrs. Norris | |
| Tom Tully | ... | Sullivan | |
| Nona Griffith | ... | Ellen Fielding | |
| Richard Lyon | ... | Barnaby Fielding |
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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In an older London neighborhood beset with strange deaths and a spooky, abandoned house with boarded-up windows, Gail Russell arrives via Boston to accept job as governess to widower Joel McCrea's two precocious kids; quickly, she begins to realize McCrea's little boy is in-cahoots with the previous nanny and may be covering up a dangerous plot which ties in with the old house--and also with McCrea, whose mysterious comings and goings spell trouble. Over-plotted and yet ultimately slim-seeming co-feature from Paramount, stiffly directed and not very exciting. Heavy-lidded Russell, fresh off her triumph in "The Univited", was never an exceptional actress, but here she gives hint she may have become a very good one, and her terse exchanges with McCrea show a much more confident performer than in "The Univited". The screenplay, adapted from Ethel Lina White's novel "Her Heart in Her Throat", falls rather early into a disparaging rut, what with Russell continually reporting peculiar happenings to people who don't believe or listen to her, and that final clinch nearly comes out of nowhere. However, for fans of 1940s potboilers like the not-dissimilar "Gaslight", this provides minor enjoyment. ** from ****