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‘THIs is another psychological murder mystery. Among the characters are @ morose young widower (Joel McCrea): his two
troublesome little children (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon), who have some dread knowledge to conceal; their "shy but inquisitive governess (Gail Russell); a neighbouring doctor (Herbert Marshall), who is so unctuously agreeable that members of the audience will be wise to suspect him at once; and various other potentially, sinister people (continued on next page) °
a5 from. previous page) -all of whom spend most of their time playing tag in and around an eerie mansion next door which, having been deserted for years, has recently become the scene of a murder. The film has its moments, but suffers through not being able to make up its mind whether to go all out for thrills in the old-fashioned haunted-house manner, or whether to achieve them mainly by hints and suggestions. It thus, so to speak, falls between two schools of melodrama. Its chief assets are the performances of Gail Russell, as the beautiful governess who does not quite know her place, and of Richard Lyon, as a sadistic small boy with grim secrets on his mind.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 24
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195THE UNSEEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 24
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