The Unsuspected
Victor Grandison, a suave radio host of a weekly radio crime series secretly commits the perfect murder, then puts the case on the air. Claude Rains (Casablanca) plays the smooth, scheming radio star in this swanky film noir.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 4, 2009
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Fred Clark, Hurd Hatfield, Claude Rains, Constance Bennett & Claude Raines | |
Directed by | Michael Curtiz | |
Screenwriting by | Ranald MacDougall & Bess Meredyth | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman | |
Director of Photography: | Elwood Bredell |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 163
Vivid film noir, with good storytelling and suspense.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: B+ --
Directed in a grand expressionist style by Michael Curtiz.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Tune in again, dear listeners. Same time, same spot on your radio dial for another cunning tale of murder. But something isn't the same about suave Victor Grandison, the host of the popular weekly program. He's secretly trying his own hand at murder. And he'll kill again if people don't get wise to him.
Claude Rains (Casablanca) plays the smooth, scheming radio star in a swanky film noir that includes Joan Caulfield (Monsieur Beaucaire) and noir icon Audrey Totter (The Set-Up). Casablanca's Michael Curtiz directs, layering the mystery with one enthralling visual flourish after another. An example: In a room inside the Peekskill Hotel, the portion of the flashing sign seen through a window says KILL... KILL."
Claude Rains (Casablanca) plays the smooth, scheming radio star in a swanky film noir that includes Joan Caulfield (Monsieur Beaucaire) and noir icon Audrey Totter (The Set-Up). Casablanca's Michael Curtiz directs, layering the mystery with one enthralling visual flourish after another. An example: In a room inside the Peekskill Hotel, the portion of the flashing sign seen through a window says KILL... KILL."
Product Description:
Director Michael Curtiz masterfully tells the fictional story of radio host Alexander Grandison (Claude Rains) as derived from a novel by Charlotte Armstrong. Grandison spookily recites murder mysteries on his radio show, with intimate and excruciating details. The reason he's so good and popular is that some of the murders he presents really are his own. He kills one of his female workers, but her fiancée, Steven Francis Howard (Michael North), threatens to take revenge for her death. Howard tries to convince Grandison's niece, Matilda Frazier (Joan Caulfield), that he is her long-lost husband. Much mystery and intrigue follows.
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