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The Seventh Veil

United Kingdom

1945

94 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
English
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DIR Compton Bennett

PROD Sydney Box

SCR Muriel Box, Sydney Box

DP Reginald H. Wyer

CAST James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven, Yvonne Owen, David Horne, Manning Whiley, Grace Allardyce, Ernest Davies, John Slater

ED Gordon Hales

MUSIC Benjamin Frankel

Cannes (In Competition)

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One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a local bridge. She is rescued and taken back to the hospital and undergoes psychological treatment by Dr. Larsen. Larsen, desperately wants to know the events and persons who drove her to this state and help her. He makes Francesca talk about her past – a past with a controlling guardian, Nicholas, no friends, kept apart from the man she loved and forced to practice the piano 5-6 hours a day. —IMDb

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The Forgotten: Messing About in Boats

By David Cairns on June 17, 2010

Compton Bennett burst upon the British filmmaking scene in 1945 with The Seventh Veil, a weird, sado-masochistically-inflected semi-gothic

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