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The Uninvited ()

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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.
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Roderick Fitzgerald
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Pamela Fitzgerald
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Cmdr. Beech
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Miss Holloway
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Miss Bird
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Lizzie Flynn
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Dr. Scott
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Stella Meredith
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Ben - Boat Owner (uncredited)
Betty Farrington ...
Carmel's Ghost (uncredited) (voice)
Helena Grant ...
Servant (uncredited)
Lynda Grey ...
Ghost of Mary Meredith (uncredited)
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Charlie Jessup (uncredited)
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Taxi Driver (uncredited)
John Kieran ...
Foreword Narrator (uncredited) (voice)
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Mrs. Taylor (uncredited)
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Mrs. Coatsworthy (uncredited)
Jessica Newcombe ...
Miss Edith Ellis (uncredited)
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Annie - Maid (uncredited)
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The Ghost of Mary Meredith (uncredited)
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Will Hardy - Tobacconist (uncredited)
Evan Thomas ...
Colonel Carlton (uncredited) (voice)

Directed by

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Lewis Allen

Written by

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Dodie Smith ... (screen play) and
Frank Partos ... (screen play)
 
Dorothy Macardle ... (novel "Uneasy Freehold")

Produced by

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Charles Brackett ... associate producer
Buddy G. DeSylva ... executive producer (uncredited)

Music by

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Victor Young ... (music score)

Cinematography by

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Charles Lang ... director of photography (as Charles Lang Jr.)

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Doane Harrison

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Hans Dreier
Ernst Fegté

Set Decoration by

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Stephen Seymour

Costume Design by

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Edith Head ... (costumes)

Makeup Department

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Wally Westmore ... makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Charles C. Coleman ... assistant director (uncredited)
Hal Walker ... second unit director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Richard Kitchin ... painter: Mary Meredith (uncredited)

Sound Department

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John Cope ... sound recordist
Hugo Grenzbach ... sound recordist

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Farciot Edouart ... process photography
Gordon Jennings ... special photographic effects (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department

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Richard Hayman ... harmonica (uncredited)
George Parrish ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Leo Shuken ... orchestrator (uncredited)

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Elizabeth Russell ... model: Mary Meredith's portrait (uncredited)
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

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. The reasons for the haunting and how they relate to the daughter whom the brother is falling in love with, prove to be a complex mystery. As they are compelled to solve it, the supernatural activity at the house increases to a frightening level. Written by Russell West

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Taglines THE GREATEST "CHILLER' OF THE YEAR! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Tech Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - November 8, 1944 - all caps) See more »
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Also Known As
  • La falaise mystérieuse (France)
  • Der unheimliche Gast (Germany)
  • Los intrusos (Spain)
  • De ubudne (Denmark)
  • Το σπίτι του μυστηρίου (Greece)
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  • 99 min
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Trivia Moyna MacGill (the mother of Angela Lansbury) has an uncredited role as the customer who enters the cigar shop while Roderick is speaking with the proprietor. See more »
Goofs The film is set in 1937, but the "going-to-church" sequence features a car with headlights blacked out in the style required due to WWII in the early 1940s. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Ghosts (1996). See more »
Soundtracks To Stella by Starlight See more »
Quotes Pamela Fitzgerald: Well, I must dash back to Lizzie. We're fighting over how much Sherry to put in a tipsy pudding. She wants to make it dead drunk.
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