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The uninvited / a Paramount picture ; screen play by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos ; associate producer, Charles Brackett ; directed by Lewis Allen.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Allen, Lewis, 1905-2000, director.
Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969, producer.
Smith, Dodie, 1896-1990, screenwriter.
Partos, Frank, 1901-1956, screenwriter.
Nehme, Farran Smith, screenwriter.
Milland, Ray, actor.
Hussey, Ruth, 1911-2005, actor.
Crisp, Donald, 1880-1974, actor.
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979, actor.
Stickney, Dorothy, 1896-1998, actor.
Everest, Barbara, 1890-1968, actor.
Napier, Alan, 1903-1988, actor.
Russell, Gail, 1924-1961, actor.
Almereyda, Michael, commentator.
Lang, Charles B., director of photography.
Young, Victor, 1889-1968, composer.
Harrison, Doane, 1894-1968, editor.
Macardle, Dorothy, 1889-1958.
Universal Pictures (Firm), producer.
Paramount Pictures Corporation, producer.
Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 677.
Criterion collection ; 677
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Macardle, Dorothy, 1889-1958--Film adaptations.
Macardle, Dorothy.
Macardle, Dorothy, 1889-1958.
Siblings--Drama.
Siblings.
Brothers and sisters.
Haunted houses.
Family secrets.
Family secrets--Drama.
Haunted houses--Drama.
Genre:
Drama.
Ghost films.
Haunted house films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 DVD video (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
polychrome
Place of Publication:
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Language Note:
English dialogue with optional English subtitles.
System Details:
DVD; NTSC; region 1; PCM mono.
digital optical mono
NTSC
video file DVD video
Summary:
A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night-this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Participant:
Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier, Gail Russell.
Credits:
Director of photography, Charles Lang, Jr. ; music score, Victor Young ; edited by Doane Harrison ; art direction, Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté ; costumes, Edith Head ; set decoration, Stephen Seymour.
Notes:
Based on the novel by Dorothy Macardle.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.
16x9, aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Special features: New 2K digital film restoration; Giving up the ghost (new visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda); Radio adaptations (DVD-Rom feature): Screen Guild Theater: August 28, 1944; Screen Director's Playhouse: November 18, 1949; Trailer. Plus, A booklet featuring an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme and a 1997 interview with director Lewis Allen.
ISBN:
9781604657982
1604657987
OCLC:
856660671
Publisher Number:
715515111911
CC2329D The Criterion Collection

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