The Seventh Victim
“Death is good” is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil-worshippers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman’s noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness, The Seventh Victim has haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time.
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Collector's Set
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Tom Conway
- Dr. Louis Judd
- Jean Brooks
- Jacqueline Gibson
- Isabel Jewell
- Frances Fallon
- Kim Hunter
- Mary Gibson
- Evelyn Brent
- Natalie Cortez
- Erford Gage
- Jason Hoag
- Ben Bard
- Brun
- Hugh Beaumont
- Gregory Ward
- Chef Milani
- Mr. Romari
- Marguerita Sylva
- Mrs. Romari
Credits
- Director
- Mark Robson
- Produced by
- Val Lewton
- Written by
- Charles O’Neal
- Written by
- DeWitt Bodeen
- Director of photography
- Nicholas Musuraca
- Music by
- Roy Webb
- Musical director
- C. Bakaleinikoff
- Art director
- Albert S. D’Agostino
- Art director
- Walter E. Keller
- Set decorations
- Darrell Silvera
- Set decorations
- Harley Miller
- Gowns by
- Renié
- Recorded by
- John C. Grubb
- Edited by
- John Lockert
- Assistant director
- William Dorfman
A scene from The Seventh Victim
