The Unseen (1945 film)

The Unseen is a 1945 film directed by Lewis Allen that starred Joel McCrea. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording Loren L. Ryder, and is based on the novel Midnight House US title Her Heart in Her Throat by Ethel Lina White.

AtCrescent Drive in a New England village, an unseen killer strangles a woman. Young Barnaby Fielding witnesses this from his window atCrescent and later retrieves the victims watch.The boys new governess, Elizabeth Howard, is unaware at first how attached Barnaby had become to Maxine, his former one. And the boys father, David, does not take the watch to police because in the past he had been suspected of murdering his wife. ........

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