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The Uninvited

Screen Directors Playhouse · November 18, 1949 · 29 min · 3,636 words

The transcript of “The Uninvited”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast November 18, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Directors Playhouse plays Screen Directors Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood, the Screen Director's Playhouse. The Screen Director's Playhouse, Star Ray Meland, Production the Uninvited, Director Louis Allen. The Hollywood Screen Director's present a tale for troubled midnight. The motion picture drama The Uninvited, Starring Ray Meland in his original role of Rick Fitzgerald.

I woke up. Five in the morning.

My skin creeping, my scalp crawling. I listened. I heard the dim surge of the ocean at the foot of the Devonship Cliffs not far from my window. Only five o'clock. And then, I was sure now.

I hadn't dreamed that a poor and crying. Could it be my sister Pamela in the next bedroom? There was no electricity in this old house. I lit a candle. I went to the door leading into the upstairs home.

Oh, what? Oh, Pamela. You heard it too then. What in heaven's name is it? I don't know. It comes from downstairs. It comes from everywhere and nowhere. I'm going down the search the place. It's no use, Rick. There's never anything there.

You mean this has happened before? All the time you were still in London while I was getting the house ready for us to live in. Why didn't you call me or write me about it?

Home now it's all we've got to live in. Sounds so terribly heartbroken. But there must be some logical explanation. It'll stop soon now. It always dies away at dawn. No wonder we got the old place for such a low price.

They tell me it stood empty for 10 years before... What? Shut up, you open. The dawn breeze. I must have forgotten the latch up. I know. The sobbing is gone. Oh. Is that all for tonight?

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