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The Uninvited

  • 19441944
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
11K
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Ray Milland, Donald Crisp, Ruth Hussey, Alan Napier, and Gail Russell in The Uninvited (1944)
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A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
11K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
12,774
2,170
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    • Director
      • Lewis Allen
    • Writers
      • Dodie Smith(screen play)
      • Frank Partos(screen play)
      • Dorothy Macardle(novel "Uneasy Freehold")
    • Stars
      • Ray Milland
      • Ruth Hussey
      • Donald Crisp
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Lewis Allen
    • Writers
      • Dodie Smith(screen play)
      • Frank Partos(screen play)
      • Dorothy Macardle(novel "Uneasy Freehold")
    • Stars
      • Ray Milland
      • Ruth Hussey
      • Donald Crisp
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 155User reviews
    • 89Critic reviews
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 1 nomination total

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    The Uninvited (1944)
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    Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ray Milland and Gail Russell in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ray Milland and Gail Russell in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ruth Hussey and Alan Napier in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ray Milland in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ruth Hussey and Gail Russell in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, and Gail Russell in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ray Milland, Alan Napier, and Gail Russell in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Alan Napier, and Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Uninvited (1944)
    Gail Russell and Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Uninvited (1944)
    Donald Crisp, Alan Napier, and Rita Page in The Uninvited (1944)
    Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, and Alan Napier in The Uninvited (1944)

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    Ray Milland
    Ray Milland
    • Roderick Fitzgerald
    Ruth Hussey
    Ruth Hussey
    • Pamela Fitzgerald
    Donald Crisp
    Donald Crisp
    • Cmdr. Beech
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    • Miss Holloway
    Dorothy Stickney
    Dorothy Stickney
    • Miss Bird
    Barbara Everest
    Barbara Everest
    • Lizzie Flynn
    Alan Napier
    Alan Napier
    • Dr. Scott
    Gail Russell
    Gail Russell
    • Stella Meredith
    David Clyde
    David Clyde
    • Ben - Boat Owner
    • (uncredited)
    Betty Farrington
    • Carmel's Ghost
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Helena Grant
    • Servant
    • (uncredited)
    Lynda Grey
    • Ghost of Mary Meredith
    • (uncredited)
    Holmes Herbert
    Holmes Herbert
    • Charlie Jessup
    • (uncredited)
    Leyland Hodgson
    Leyland Hodgson
    • Taxi Driver
    • (uncredited)
    John Kieran
    • Foreword Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Queenie Leonard
    Queenie Leonard
    • Mrs. Taylor
    • (uncredited)
    Moyna MacGill
    Moyna MacGill
    • Mrs. Coatsworthy
    • (uncredited)
    Jessica Newcombe
    • Miss Edith Ellis
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Lewis Allen
    • Writers
      • Dodie Smith(screen play)
      • Frank Partos(screen play)
      • Dorothy Macardle(novel "Uneasy Freehold")
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Moyna MacGill (who is Angela Lansbury's mother) has an uncredited role as the customer who enters the cigar shop while Roderick is speaking with the proprietor.
    • Goofs
      When Roderick & Stella are sailing in a small boat, they did the old chestnut of hitting him on the back of the head with the boom. However Stella pushed the tiller. That would have sent the boom to starboard, away from Roderick's head. Background didn't shift either.
    • Quotes

      Roderick Fitzgerald: [narration] They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here... and sea fog... and eerie stories...

      Roderick Fitzgerald: That's not because there are most ghosts here then other places, mind you. It's just that people who live here about are strangely aware of them. You see, day and night, year in, year out, they listen to the pound and stir of the waves. There's life and death in that restless sound. And eternity too.

      Roderick Fitzgerald: If you listen to it long enough, all your senses are sharpened. You come by strange instincts. You get to recognize a peculiar cold that is the first warning. A cold which is no mere matter of degrees Farenheit, but a draining of warmth from the vital centers of the living.

      Roderick Fitzgerald: Loads of people tell me they would've felt it. Even outside that locked door. We didn't. They can't understand why we didn't know what it meant when our dog wouldn't go up those stairs. Animals see the blasted things that appears.

      Roderick Fitzgerald: Well, my sister Pamela and I knew nothing about such matters. Not then we didn't. We had the disadvantage of being Londoners, just down for a fortnight's rest. That 10th day of May, 1937 was the end of our holiday.

    • Connections
      Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Ghosts (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      To Stella by Starlight
      (uncredited)

      Music by Victor Young

      Played on piano by Ray Milland (dubbed) and heard as a main theme in the score.

      Richard Hayman and his Orchestra performed the music. Richard Hayman also played the harmonica solo in the piece.

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    Top review
    9/10
    Subtle, Stylish Ghost Classic
    Add a beautiful, mysterious Cornish seascape - with cliff and huge house standing alone. Add the likes of veteran actors like Ray Milland, Donald Crisp, Ruth Hussey, Alan Napier, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and a charming newcomer in Gail Russell. Throw in the eerie, suspenseful story of a house with a secret - a house that is worth much, much more than it sells for but is sold for a song to new neighbors Milland and Hussey as siblings. Stir in the ever present, keen eye for mixing atmosphere with action by director Lewis Allen and a thought-provoking, interesting albeit somewhat predictable script by Dodie Smith (based on a popular novel by Dorothy Macardle). For extra measure and a stronger ghostly flavour, present a séance, an asylum for the mentally ill, a true cliffhanger, and of course ghosts with work left to do after they have NOT shuffled off this mortal coil. All these ingredients make a fine film called The Univited, a Paramount release that really tries to be a true ghost story with emphasis on atmosphere rather than action. Though the film has a few stretches which might have been enhanced a bit more with some more action, the film's overall quality succeeds in its goals. The Uninvited is a first-rate ghost story about a secret this solitary, palatial house has, and it creates its suspense with things like creaking doors, lights faintly moving, wind blowing windows in(or out), barely audible whispers floating in the air, and ethereal images casting their ghostly shadows for the living's visual consumption. Ray Milland is as ever very affable in the lead role and Gail Russell as the focus of the ghost intrigue is beautiful and talented. Hussey, Skinner, and Napier do very good jobs with the material, but Donald Crisp as Russell's strong-willed father makes the biggest impression. If you are looking for something that has all the trappings of a sophisticated haunted house film - The Uninvited is it.
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    • Nov 10, 2006

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    • Release date
      • February 24, 1944 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Nepozvani
    • Filming locations
      • Phoenix, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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