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The Unknown
Directed byHenry Levin
Written byCarlton E. Morse
Charles O'Neal
Dwight V. Babcock
Based onradio play Faith, Hope and Charity SistersbyMalcolm Stuart Boylan and Julian Harmon
Produced byWallace MacDonald
StarringKaren Morley
Jim Bannon
Jeff Donnell
Narrated byFrank Martin
CinematographyHenry Freulich
Edited byArt Seid
(as Arthur Seid)

Production
company

Columbia Pictures

Distributed byColumbia Pictures

Release date

  • July 4, 1946 (1946-07-04)

Running time

71 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Unknown is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Henry Levin made by Columbia Pictures as the third and final part of its I Love a Mystery series based on the popular radio program.[1] The previous films were I Love a Mystery (1945) and The Devil's Mask (1946).[2]

It is a loose adaptation of the I Love a Mystery radio episode Faith, Hope, and Charity, Sisters,[3] which was remade in a later version of the radio series, in '49, as The Thing That Cries in the Night, starring Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall as the private detectives, and Mercedes MacCambridge as the stewardess and Cherry (Charity).

It is known as The Coffin.[4]

Plot[edit]

Cast[edit]

  • Jack Packard – Jim Bannon
  • Nina Arnold – Jeff Donnell
  • Reed Cawthorne – Mark Roberts
  • Richard Arnold – Robert Wilcox
  • Doc Long – Barton Yarborough
  • Edward Martin – James Bell
  • Ralph Martin – Wilton Graff
  • Phoebe Martin – Helen Freeman
  • Joshua - J. Louis Johnson
  • Critical reception[edit]

    TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, describing it as "filled with all the things that are guaranteed to make audiences jump out of their seats, such as hidden passageways, a hooded grave robber, eerie shadows, and mysterious killings".[5]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "The Unknown". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11.
  • ^ "The "I Love A Mystery" Movie Page". Angelfire.
  • ^ Second Feature: the Best of the 'B' Films, John Cocchi, 1991, Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group
  • ^ "NEWS OF THE SCREEN". New York Times. Mar 9, 1946. ProQuest 107495162.
  • ^ "The Unknown". TVGuide.com.
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