''The Unknown'' is a 1946 American
mystery film
A mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, i ...
directed by
Henry Levin made by
Columbia Pictures
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as the third and final part of its ''
I Love a Mystery'' series based on the popular radio program. The previous films were ''
I Love a Mystery'' (1945) and ''
The Devil's Mask'' (1946).
It was a loose adaptation of the I Love a Mystery radio episode ''Faith, Hope, and Charity, Sisters'', which was remade in a later version of the radio series, in '49, as ''The Thing That Cries in the Night'', starring Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall as the private detectives, and Mercedes MacCambridge as the stewardess and Cherry (Charity).
It was known as ''The Coffin''.
Cast
Critical reception
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'' gave the film two out of five stars, describing it as "filled with all the things that are guaranteed to make audiences jump out of their seats, such as hidden passageways, a hooded grave robber, eerie shadows, and mysterious killings."
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American mystery films
1946 films
American black-and-white films
Columbia Pictures films
Films directed by Henry Levin
1946 mystery films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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