The Uninvited (1944)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1944
Running Times: 100m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Director: Lewis Allen

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Producer: Charles Brackett

SCRIPT
Script: Frank Partos, Dodie Smith
Novel: Uneasy Freehold by Dorothy Macardle

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: C.C. Coleman

PHOTOGRAPHY
Direction of Photography: Charles Lang

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Doane Harrison

MUSIC
Music: Victor Young
Song Performed By: Victor Young (Stella by Starlight)

SOUND
Sound Recordists: John Cope, Hugo Grenzbach
Sound Mix: Western Electric Sound System

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Wally Westmore
Costume Designer: Edith Head

VISUAL EFFECTS
Process Photography: Farciot Edouart

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté
Set Decorator: Stephen Seymour

CAST

Ray Milland (Roderick Fitzgerald)
Ruth Hussey (Pamela Fitzgerald)
Donald Crisp (Commander Beech)
Cornelia Otis Skinner (Miss Holloway)
Dorothy Stickney (Miss Bird)
Barbara Everest (Lizzie Flynn)
Alan Napier (Dr Scott)
Gail Russell (Stella Meredith)

UNCREDITED CAST

Norman Ainsley (chauffeur)
David Clyde (Ben)
Betty Farrington (Mary Meredith)
Helena Grant (servant)
Lynda Grey (Mary Meredith (ghost))
Holmes Herbert (Charlie Jessup)
Leyland Hodgson (cab driver)
John Kieran (narrator)
George Kirby (gas station attendant)
Queenie Leonard (Mrs Taylor)
Moyna MacGill (Mrs Coatsworthy)
Ottola Nesmith (Mrs Carlton)
Jessica Newcombe (Miss Ellis)
Rita Page (maid)
Elizabeth Russell (Mary Meredith (painting model))
Ivan F. Simpson (Will Hardy)
Evan Thomas (Colonel Carlton)

Brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald move into a long abandoned house by the sea and are soon haunted by strange sounds at nights. Roderick begins to fall in love with the daughter of the house's previous owners - but she is the key to the mystery of what is really going on in the house, a mystery that deepens as the haunting becomes more terrifying.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Laserdisc Distributor: MCA Home Video (40400)

Finland
Rating: K-16

Sweden
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: Approved (PCA #9337)

AWARDS

1945
Academy Awards, USA
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Charles Lang) - nominated

1944
October
16: Sweden - theatrical release

1945
February
11: Finland - theatrical release

1950
May
23: West Germany - theatrical release

1951
August
3: Austria - theatrical release

From the Most Popular Mystery Romance since "Rebecca"!

SEE ALSO
Poltergeist (1982)

PERIODICALS

Fangoria no.166 (1977) pp.12-17 (USA)
interview with Lewis Allen (Welcoming The Uninvited by Tom Weaver)

book into film, ghosts, haunted houses, seances, the supernatural

Last Updated: 17 January, 2010