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The Seventh Victim Overview:

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 sea... 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... Read full article

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The Seventh Victim Quotes:

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.
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.
Gregory Ward: I love your sister, Mary. I love her very much. It's easy to understand now isn't it? A man would look for her anywhere Mary. There's something... exciting and unforgettable about Jacqueline. Something you never... quite get hold of. Something that keeps a man following after her.
Mary Gibson: Because I loved Jacqueline I thought I knew her. Today I found out such strange things, frightening things. I saw a hangman's noose that Jacqueline had hanging... waiting.
Gregory Ward: Well, at least I can explain about that. Your sister had a feeling about life; that it wasn't worth living unless one could end it. I helped her get that rope.
Gregory Ward: No, that room made her happy in some strange way I couldn't understand. She lived in a world of her own fancy. She didn't always tell the truth. In fact, I'm afraid she didn't know what the truth was.
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 Seventh Victim Facts
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.
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.
Erford Gage, who played the poet Jason Hoag, enlisted in the U.S. Army in August 1943 (around the time this film was released) and was killed in action in the Phillipines in March 1945.
Film debut of Kim Hunter.
The staircase seen at the beginning of the film is the same one used in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.
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