THE UNINVITED (1944) #1193-24 Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey Gail Russell Donald Crisp

Description: (This looks MUCH better than this pictures above.) THE UNINVITED (1944) #1193-24 Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Gail Russell, Donald Crisp, Alan Napier 8x10 vintage original silver gelatin photograph! A REAL COLLECTOR’S ITEM! This would look great framed on display in your home theater or to add to your portfolio or scrapbook! A worthy investment for gift giving too! PLEASE BE PATIENT WHIL ALL PICTURES LOAD After checking out this item please look at my other unique silent motion picture memorabilia and Hollywood film collectibles! SHIPPING COST CAN BE CUT WHEN SHIPPING MULTIPLE ITEMS TOGETHER AND SAVE $ See a gallery of pictures of my other auctions HERE! This photograph is a real photo chemical created picture (vintage, from the Hollywood studio release) and not a copy or reproduction. DESCRIPTION: most popular mystery romance since 'Rebecca'!"; "The story of a love that is out of this world!"; based on the novel by Dorothy Macardle) starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Barbara Everest, Gail Russell (billed as "Introducing the Exciting Beauty of Paramount's New Star Gail Russell whose first love is shadowed by the specters of the past!"), Dorothy Stickney, and Alan Napier. Note that Gail Russell suffered from terrible stage fright, and she was encouraged to drink while making this movie, to "calm her nerves", but that led to her becoming an alcoholic and having a tragic end to her career and an early death. CONDITION: This original vintage 8” x 10” still photograph is in VERY GOOD condition, with scuffs, border bumps/nicks and numerous scattered creases. RICH SHARP DETAIL WITH SINGLE HAIR DETAILS! (SEE PIX FOR MORE DETAILS.) Finally, this is a vintage original. (This is NOT a cheap digital dupe, a re-release or copy, it is a real vintage photograph made the year of the release of the film.) SHIPPING: Domestic shipping would be USPS Ground Advantage (includes $100 insurance) and well packed in plastic, with several layers of cardboard support/protection and delivery tracking. The USPS has removed FIRST CLASS from eBay’s postage label system. (Darn it!) International shipping depends on the location, and the package would weigh close to a half a pound with even more extra ridge packing. PAYMENTS: Please pay via eBay once you have selected all the items you wish shipped together. I love combining shipping!! All of my items are unconditionally guaranteed. E-mail me with any questions you may have. This is Larry41, wishing you great movie memories and good luck… BACKGROUND: “The Uninvited is directed by Lewis Allen and adapted to screenplay by Frank Partos and Dodie Smith from the novel Uneasy Freehold written by Dorothy Macardle. It stars Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp and Cornelia Otis Skinner. Music is by Victor Young and cinematography by Charles B. Lang. "They call them the haunted shores; these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here... and sea fog... and eerie stories..." Wonderful old fashioned ghost story that neatly blends romance and a light comedic tone into the pot, The Uninvited is very much a movie of significance. It marks a point in cinematic time when the ghost story proved it could be played for true unnerving impact. It remains a sub-genre of horror that is sorely lacking in bona fide classics, spookers that have longevity, the ability to raise the goose flesh no matter how many times they are revisited. With a new special edition DVD recently released, and the likes of Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro championing its cause by putting it on their lists of favorite frighteners, The Uninvited is proving its worth as an old sub-genre classic. Plot is conventional stuff. It's 1937 and Milland and Hussey play a brother and sister who fall in love with a cliff side house they stumble upon whilst holidaying on the southwest coast of England. Sure, enough they snag themselves the house at a ridiculously cheap price, this even though they are warned of some previous disturbances at the address. Cue a mysteriously locked room that when opened reveals itself to be deathly cold, pets that will not go up the stairs and then comes the hauntings... So far so formulaic, then, but as the story begins to unravel in the second half of the movie, where the light touch is left behind, a fizzer of back story comes to the fore and one or two extra surprises leap out of the narrative. This is not lazy plotting, it is well constructed, the mystery element is strong and sidles up nicely with the spooky goings on. "If you listen to it long enough, all your senses are sharpened. You come by strange instincts. You get to recognize a peculiar cold that is the first warning. A cold which is no mere matter of degrees Fahrenheit, but a draining of warmth from the vital centers of the living." This is a spooky that, unsurprisingly for the time, is devoid of visceral shocks and blunderbuss like scares. This is more about atmosphere (Lang was Oscar nominated for his noirish photography) and fear of the unknown, where the sound of a sobbing woman in the darkness chills the blood. Perhaps surprisingly for the time? We do get to see spectral images, and they still work and create the desired effect, who needs a computer-generated image spitting blood when you can have ethereal spookiness floating eerily above the ground? While we are at it, who needs a beefed-up pretty boy actor fighting the good fight against evil when you can have an elegant Ray Milland doing it with a glint in his eye instead? The cast are very effective, with Russell really making a mark so early in her career, while Young's score is both sinister and tender (the song Stella by Starlight would become a popular standard) at all the right times. A genuine ghost story for those who prefer the sparing atmospheric touch to the noisy carnage approach.”

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