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The Seventh Victim (1943) was a Drama - Horror Film directed by Mark Robson and produced by Val Lewton.

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The Seventh Victim (1943): Lewton’s Economy Rules

By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 25, 2019 From 4 Star Films

What a picture for Kim Hunter to have come into her own (and Mark Robson for that matter). The 7th Victim is a chilling gem and the motor to move the story forward is an audacious girl, Mary Gibson (Hunter), who makes a decision to leave her boarding school of stain glass and angelic?choirs, to sear... Read full article


"The Seventh Victim" screens this Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Daystar Center

By Stephen Reginald on Oct 21, 2015 From Classic Movie Man

"The Seventh Victim" screens this Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Daystar Center Where: The Daystar Center, 1550 S. State St. When: 6:30 p.m. The Seventh Victim (1943)—The RKO movie factory was working at full tilt, with producer Val Lewton releasing four films in 1943! The plot of Th... Read full article


The Seventh Victim (1943)

By Beatrice on Sep 29, 2014 From Flickers in Time

The Seventh Victim Directed by Mark Robson Written by Charles O’Neill and DeWitt Bodeen 1943/USA RKO Radio Pictures First viewing/Netflix rental #171 of !001 Movies You Must See Before You Die This beautifully shot film is really more about death than it is about Satan worshippers. Mary Gi... Read full article


The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson)

on May 17, 2013 From The Stop Button

Quite surprisingly, The Seventh Victim–in addition to being a disquieting, subtle thriller–is mostly about urban apathy and discontent. Though there aren’t any establishing shots of New York City (or of the small New England town protagonist Kim Hunter comes from), Robson and write... Read full article


The Seventh Victim (1943)

By Kristen on Feb 26, 2013 From Journeys in Classic Film

My horror film class did a Val Lewton double feature, and one of the choices was a movie I’d never seen (the first movie was Cat People which I reviewed during my 31 Days of Horror here). ?The Seventh Victim is a bizarre movie that I’m still not sure I’ve processed fully. ?On the o... Read full article


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Quotes from

Jason Hoag, Poet: I'm under orders to make you laugh. In Mrs. Romari's mind, poetry and humor has some strange affinity, which they don't have in fact. She wants me to play the fool for you but... suddenly Miss Gibson, I feel as sad as you do.
Mary Gibson: Well, then, I've spoiled your dinner. Your food won't digest and your wine will sour.


Mary Gibson: He was a kind little man in his way. I made him go down that hall into the darkness. I made him do it.


Frances Fallon: Your sister had many friends, but they weren't my friends. I was only the manager of her plant.


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The original story for the film (outlined by DeWitt Bodeen) was to be about an orphaned heroine caught in a web of murder against a background of the Signal Hills oil wells. If she didn't find out the killer's identity in time, she would become his seventh victim. Producer Val Lewton wanted the story to go in a different direction and called in a second writer to help reshape it.
Film debut of Kim Hunter.
The character of Mimi, the dying prostitute, was intended as a macabre joke, a reference to the opera "La Bohème", which features a dying woman named Mimi. Such darkly humorous references are common in Val Lewton's films.
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