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The Seventh Victim

  • 1943
  • Approved
  • 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, and Jean Brooks in The Seventh Victim (1943)
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A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.

  • Director
    • Mark Robson
  • Writers
    • Charles O'Neal
    • DeWitt Bodeen
  • Stars
    • Kim Hunter
    • Tom Conway
    • Jean Brooks
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    7.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Mark Robson
    • Writers
      • Charles O'Neal
      • DeWitt Bodeen
    • Stars
      • Kim Hunter
      • Tom Conway
      • Jean Brooks
    • 122User reviews
    • 66Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations

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    Hugh Beaumont and Jean Brooks in The Seventh Victim (1943)
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    Kim Hunter
    Kim Hunter
    • Mary Gibson
    Tom Conway
    Tom Conway
    • Dr. Louis Judd
    Jean Brooks
    Jean Brooks
    • Jacqueline Gibson
    Isabel Jewell
    Isabel Jewell
    • Frances Fallon
    Evelyn Brent
    Evelyn Brent
    • Natalie Cortez
    Erford Gage
    Erford Gage
    • Jason Hoag
    Ben Bard
    Ben Bard
    • Mr. Brun
    Hugh Beaumont
    Hugh Beaumont
    • Gregory Ward
    Chef Milani
    • Mr. Giacomo Romari
    Marguerita Sylva
    • Mrs. Bella Romari
    Joan Barclay
    Joan Barclay
    • Gladys
    • (uncredited)
    Patti Brill
    Patti Brill
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Wally Brown
    Wally Brown
    • Durk
    • (uncredited)
    Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
    Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
    • Leo
    • (uncredited)
    Wheaton Chambers
    Wheaton Chambers
    • Missing Girl's Father
    • (uncredited)
    James Conaty
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Edith Conrad
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Kernan Cripps
    Kernan Cripps
    • Police Officer Danny
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mark Robson
    • Writers
      • Charles O'Neal
      • DeWitt Bodeen
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    • Trivia
      Erford Gage, who played the poet Jason Hoag, enlisted in the U.S. Army in August 1943 (around the time this film was released) and was killed in action in the Phillipines in March 1945.
    • Goofs
      The opening text reads: "I run from death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday." The movie attributes the quote to John Donne's Holy Sonnet #7. But it is actually from Holy Sonnet #1.
    • Quotes

      Gladys: My dear, we were intimate. The times we use to have together! I bet she never told you about that - you're too young.

    • Crazy credits
      [title after starting credits] I runne to death, and death meets me as fast, and all my pleasures are like yesterday. Holy sonnet #VII Jonne Donne
    • Alternate versions
      Exists in a computer-colorized version
    • Connections
      Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: The Seventh Victim (1967)
    • Soundtracks
      May Heaven Forgive You
      (uncredited)

      From "Martha"

      Music by Friedrich von Flotow

      Arranged by Roy Webb

      [The tune playing on the barrel organ as Mary goes to the Dante for the first time]

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    6/10
    A rather muddled entry from Val Lewton
    I'm not sure if this is the film that officially caused RKO to rein in their errant art-horror guru--and stick him with Boris Karloff to make sure they got actual horror, just like Universal--but, more than most Lewton films that started out as a completely different story, this one's probably his most muddled. The story feels like it spends so much time trying to be an "allegory" for something, it's hard to nail down what it actually is.

    Supposedly, we follow virginal girls'-school student Kim Hunter, as she has to go to New York to track down her missing sister who disappeared into the Greenwich Village life, and later discovers her sister has been marked for death by a sinister occult organization among the city elite, and you can never tell who might be In On It--Call it "Rosemary's Sister". There's an intriguing beginning with a private detective, two helpful male romantic-leads, and the usual Cat People-esque Val Lewton nervous street chases, but once we meet the sister, the story keeps trying to lecture us on something else.

    We learn that the sister was starting to feel unfulfilled and suicidal, but once the Sinister Organization catches up with her, to "sacrifice" her into silence, their method is to sit her at a table and browbeat her into trying to drink a glass of poison--after all, she wanted to kill herself, didn't she?--like Eyes Wide Shut re-enacting the Death of Socrates. And although we're told who the Sinister Occult Organization is, we never actually see them doing anything sinister or occult: With a few rewrites, the baddies could just as easily have been secret Nazi saboteurs, and, in DeWitt Bodeen's earlier murder-mystery draft of the story, probably were.

    The movie ends with our two heroes catching up with the baddies and self-righteously lecturing them, for reasons that seem to go a lot deeper than just being Sinister or Occult.

    Unlike the usual tight Lewton button-pushing (there's a neat chill that foreshadows Hitchcock's shower scene, seventeen years early), there's so much Message, Metaphor and Allegory muddling the thriller, it feels like a screenwriter wanted to get something off his chest. It's the kind of story that a screenwriter would write after going through his own personal issues, and forget to not make them so personal for the studio. I give it 6/10 for being so ponderous, as many films from 1943 were.
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    • Release date
      • August 21, 1943 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
      • Latin
      • French
    • Also known as
      • The 7th Victim
    • Filming locations
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 11 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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