The Seventh Victim is a 1943 American horror film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, and Hugh Beaumont. The film focuses on a young woman who stumbles on an underground cult of devil worshippers in New York City. Released on August 21, 1943, the film failed to garner significant income at the box office.
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The Seventh Victim is a 1943 American horror film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, and Hugh Beaumont. The film focuses on a young woman who stumbles on an underground cult of devil worshippers in Greenwich Village, New York City. Released on August 21, 1943, the film failed to garner significant income at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics, who found its narrative incoherence a primary fault. It was later revealed that Robson had removed four substantial scenes from the final cut, including an extended conclusion. In spite of its mixed reception, the movie became a cult film in England, noted by critics for its homoerotic undertones. The cultists kidnap Jacqueline, but decide that she should kill herself, as she has long been suicidal anyway. They offer her a cup of poison, but she refuses to drink it, so they send an assassin to follow her through the streets with a switchblade. The assassin eludes her and returns to her apartment above the restaurant, where she eludes him and eludes the cultists. Jacqueline is the seventh person since the founding of the cult to be so condemned since the so-called “Palladists” have killed seven people since the group’s inception. The Palladists kill Jacqueline in retaliation for her revealing the organization to the police, but the assassin is killed by Jacqueline as well as a member of the group, believing him to be one of them.
The group then kills the assassin, but he is found dead in the subway by Mary Gibson, who is on her way to find her sister, who has been missing for months. The plot centers around the disappearance of Mary’s sister, Jacqueline Gibson, a cosmetics company owner who owns La Sagesse in New York. Mary decides to leave school to find Jacqueline; she finds her sister has sold her business eight months earlier. Mary enlists a private detective, Irving August, to help locate Jacqueline. The detective is stabbed to death by an unseen assailant. Mary learns Jacqueline had been a patient of Dr. Louis Judd’s, seeking treatment for depression stemming from her membership in a Satanic cult. Mary finds Jacqueline has rented a room above the store, which she finds empty aside from a wooden chair and above it a noose hanging from the ceiling. Mary’s investigation leads her to several individuals who knew Jacqueline,. including her secret husband, attorney Gregory Ward, and a psychiatrist, Dr. Louis Judd. Mary takes a job at a kindergarten, and develops a romance with Jason Hoag, a poet. Some time later, Esther breaks into Mary’s apartment and confronts her in the shower, claiming that Jacqueline murdered Irving and urges Mary to return to Highcliffe. Mary heeds Esther’s warning, and informs both Gregory and Jason, who resolve to locate Jacquelines and have her surrender herself to police for Irving’s murder.
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