The Uninvited

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The Uninvited

(1944)

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A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted.

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Lewis Allen

Director
Dorothy Macardle

Novel
Dodie Smith

Screenplay
Frank Partos

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Ray Milland

Roderick Fitzgerald
Ruth Hussey

Pamela Fitzgerald
Gail Russell

Stella Meredith
Donald Crisp

Commander Beech
Cornelia Otis Skinner

Miss Holloway

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A review by John Chard

8.0

Written by John Chard on January 5, 2019

That's not because there are more ghosts here than other places, mind you. It's just that people who live here about are strangely aware of them.

The Uninvited is directed by Lewis Allen and adapted to screenplay by Frank Partos and Dodie Smith from the novel Uneasy Freehold written by Dorothy Macardle. It stars Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp and Cornelia Otis Skinner. Music is by Victor Young and cinematography by Charles B. Lang.

"They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mi... read the rest.

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