| The Unknown | |
| Director: | Henry Levin |
| Producer: | Wallace MacDonald |
| Based On: | radio play Faith, Hope and Charity Sisters by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Julian Harmon |
| Narrator: | Frank Martin |
| Starring: | Karen Morley Jim Bannon Jeff Donnell |
| Cinematography: | Henry Freulich |
| Editing: | Art Seid (as Arthur Seid) |
| Studio: | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
| Runtime: | 71 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Unknown is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Henry Levin made by Columbia Pictures as the third and final part of its I Love a Mystery series based on the popular radio program.[1] The previous films were I Love a Mystery (1945) and The Devil's Mask (1946).[2]
The film is a loose adaptation of the I Love a Mystery radio episode Faith, Hope, and Charity, Sisters,[3] which was remade in a later version of the radio series, in '49, as The Thing That Cries in the Night, starring Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall as the private detectives, and Mercedes MacCambridge as the stewardess and Cherry (Charity).
It is also known as The Coffin.[4]
TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, describing it as "filled with all the things that are guaranteed to make audiences jump out of their seats, such as hidden passageways, a hooded grave robber, eerie shadows, and mysterious killings".[5]