The Uninvited is a 1944 American supernatural mystery/romance film directed by Lewis Allen. It is based on the Dorothy Macardle novel Uneasy Freehold.
It was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography for Charles Lang's camerawork.
The movie begins with a narration by Ray Milland. "They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mis...
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The Uninvited is a 1944 American supernatural mystery/romance film directed by Lewis Allen. It is based on the Dorothy Macardle novel Uneasy Freehold.
It was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography for Charles Lang's camerawork.
The movie begins with a narration by Ray Milland. "They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That’s not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It’s just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them."
London music critic and composer Roderick "Rick" Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) discover a handsome, abandoned seaside house during a holiday on one of England's rocky coasts on the 10th of May, 1937. Even though their terrier, Bobby, refuses to climb the house's graceful, curving stairway, Pamela and Rick find...
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