One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a local bridge. She is rescued and taken ...
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Title: The Seventh Veil (1945)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| James Mason | ... | Nicholas | |
| Ann Todd | ... | Francesca | |
| Herbert Lom | ... | Dr. Larsen | |
| Hugh McDermott | ... | Peter Gay | |
| Albert Lieven | ... | Maxwell Leyden | |
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Yvonne Owen | ... | Susan Brook |
| David Horne | ... | Dr. Kendall | |
| Manning Whiley | ... | Dr. Irving | |
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Grace Allardyce | ... | Nurse |
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Ernest Davies | ... | Parker |
| John Slater | ... | James | |
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Arnold Goldsborough | ... | Conductor |
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Muir Mathieson | ... | Conductor |
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One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a local bridge. She is rescued and taken back to the hospital and undergoes psychological treatment by Dr. Larsen. Larsen, desperately wants to know the events and persons who drove her to this state and help her. He makes Francesca talk about her past - a past with a controlling guardian, Nicholas, no friends, kept apart from the man she loved and forced to practice the piano 5-6 hours a day. Written by Kelly
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Actor James Mason: "This was Sydney Box's and Ann Todd's film. But director Compton Bennett and I also profited from its success. 'Welcome' mats were spread out for us in Hollywood." See more »Goofs
When Francesca performs in her first concert, she is wearing a small cross necklace. When she faints at the end of the concert, the necklace has inexplicably disappeared in the close-ups of her on the stage floor. See more »Quotes
Dr. Larsen: Dr. Kendall, a surgeon doesn't operate without first taking off the patient's clothes, nor do we with the mind. You know what, uh, Staples says? The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of her dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils: veils of reserve, shyness, fear. Now with friends, the average person will drop first one veil, then another, maybe three or four altogether. With a lover, she will take off five, or even six, but never the seventh. Never, you see the human mind ...See more »
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15 February 1946 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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This utterly enjoyable and utterly daft film tells the tale of a young suicidal pianist. As she slowly confides in her psychiatrist, she begins to understand what she needs to make herself whole and able to play the piano again--basically the love of a man. Which man--her domineering guardian uncle, her musician boyfriend, or the doctor--is only revealed once the last veil has been lifted.