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Release Date:
21 August 1943 (USA)
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Tagline:
SLAVE to SATAN!
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Plot:
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village, and finds that they may have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
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Awards:
1 nomination
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 | Tom Conway | ... | Doctor Louis Judd |
| Jean Brooks | ... | Jacqueline Gibson |
| Isabel Jewell | ... | Frances Fallon |
| Kim Hunter | ... | Mary Gibson |
| Evelyn Brent | ... | Natalie Cortez |
| Erford Gage | ... | Jason Hoag, Poet |
| Ben Bard | ... | Mr. Brun |
| Hugh Beaumont | ... | Gregory Ward |
| Chef Milani | ... | Mr. Jacob Romari |
| Marguerita Sylva | ... | Mrs. Bella Romari |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: |
| Joan Barclay | ... | Gladys (uncredited) |
| Patti Brill | ... | Bit (uncredited) |
| Wally Brown | ... | Durk, 'Drunk' Cult Henchman (uncredited) |
| Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | ... | Leo, 'Drunk' Cult Henchman (uncredited) |
| Wheaton Chambers | ... | Missing Girl's Father (uncredited) |
| Edith Conrad | ... | Bit (uncredited) |
| Kernan Cripps | ... | Police Officer Danny, Bureau Clerk (uncredited) |
| Richard Davies | ... | Detective (uncredited) |
| Lorna Dunn | ... | Mother (uncredited) |
| Edythe Elliott | ... | Mrs. Swift (uncredited) |
| Bud Geary | ... | Police Sergeant, Bureau Clerk (uncredited) |
| Barbara Hale | ... | Subway Passenger (uncredited) |
| William Halligan | ... | Paul Radeaux, Private Eye (uncredited) |
| Mary Halsey | ... | Bit (uncredited) |
| Henry Hebert | ... | Devil Worshipper (uncredited) |
| Lloyd Ingraham | ... | La Sagesse Watchman (uncredited) |
| Tiny Jones | ... | News Vendor (uncredited) |
| Milton Kibbee | ... | Joseph (uncredited) |
| Adia Kuznetzoff | ... | Thespian (uncredited) |
| Lou Lubin | ... | Irving August, Private Eye (uncredited) |
| Eve March | ... | Mildred Gilchrist, Highcliff Teacher (uncredited) |
| Howard M. Mitchell | ... | Cop (uncredited) |
| Marianne Mosner | ... | Miss Rowan (uncredited) |
| Patsy Nash | ... | Nancy (uncredited) |
| Ottola Nesmith | ... | Mrs. Lowood, Highcliff Headmistress (uncredited) |
| Mary Newton | ... | Esther Redi, Jacqueline's Partner (uncredited) |
| Norma Jean Nilsson | ... | Bit (uncredited) |
| Eileen O'Malley | ... | Mother (uncredited) |
| Charles Phillips | ... | Cop (uncredited) |
| Cyril Ring | ... | Devil Worshipper (uncredited) |
| Betty Roadman | ... | Mrs. Wheeler, Settlement House (uncredited) |
| Dewey Robinson | ... | Subway Conductor (uncredited) |
| Elizabeth Russell | ... | Mimi (uncredited) |
| Sarah Selby | ... | Miss Gottschalk, Librarian (uncredited) |
| Jameson Shade | ... | Swenson (uncredited) |
| Ann Summers | ... | Miss Summers, Ward's Secretary (uncredited) |
| Edward Thomas | ... | Bit (uncredited) |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The 7th Victim (USA) (promotional title)
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Runtime:
71 min
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Trivia:
The original story for the film (outlined by
DeWitt Bodeen) was to be about an orphaned heroine caught in a web of murder against a background of the Signal Hills oil wells. If she didn't find out the killer's identity in time, she would become his seventh victim. Producer
Val Lewton wanted the story to go in a different direction and called in a second writer to help reshape it.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: In the beginning of the movie we see a quote from John Donne. "I run from death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday." The movie attributes the quote to John Donne's Holy Sonnet #7. But it is actually from Holy Sonnet #1.
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Who was the dead man that Mary saw on the subway, and why was he killed?
Why is Jacqueline in hiding?
What was the girl saying in the background as Mary walks downstairs with her suitcase?
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This little known and scantily screened Val Lewton masterpiece is a must see. The eerie atmosphere established at the boarding school where Kim Hunter learns of her sister's disappearance continues throughout. Scenes including her nightmarish experience in a darkened cosmetic company hallway illustrate how far afield recent film has gotten from true suspense as sustained in the imagination of the viewer. The chilling normalcy of the lives of the Satanists she comes to be pursuing in an effort to understand what has happened to her sister, and their quiet menace as they later gather forces to will the suicide of one of their ranks is gripping. The scenes depicting her sister's frantic run through the streets to escape a pursuer will remind others of the opening of Lewton's other little shown film The Leopard Man. Viewing this film further reinforces my belief that an intelligent film patron does not need to be clubbed over the head by excessive gore and violence to be truly scared by a film if the story is intriguing and the execution is as good as in The Seventh Victim.