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22 September 1960 (USA) moreTagline:
A ghost-woman owned him body and soul! morePlot:
A man lets a former flame fall to her death rather than let her interfere with his new relationship, but her ghost returns to disrupt his impending nuptials. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
low-budget cross of Twilight Zone and film noir moreCast
(Credited cast)| Richard Carlson | ... | Tom Stewart | |
| Susan Gordon | ... | Sandy Hubbard | |
| Lugene Sanders | ... | Meg Hubbard | |
| Juli Reding | ... | Vi Mason | |
| Joe Turkel | ... | Nick, The Blackmailer | |
| Lillian Adams | ... | Mrs. Ellis | |
| Gene Roth | ... | Mr. Nelson, lunch stand operator | |
| Vera Marshe | ... | Mrs. Hubbard (as Vera Marsh) | |
| Harry Fleer | ... | Frank Hubbard | |
| Merritt Stone | ... | Clergyman | |
| George Stanley | |||
| Dick Walsh | |||
| Leslie Thomas |
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UK:PG (re-rating) (2005) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:UnratedFun Stuff
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A portion of the score actually came from William Castle's House on Haunted Hill (1959) which Allied Artists had distributed the previous year. moreFAQ
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The first thing to notice is the photography of Ernest Laszlo, a veteran of film noir who shot the classic "D.O.A.", "Kiss Me Deadly" and Fritz Lang's "While the City Sleeps." (And the same year "Tormented" came out, he did "Inherit the Wind"!) He elevates this little ghost tale no end, with nice compositions such as the shots through broken lighthouse windows.
Classical ghost stories usually don't have very far to go, and that's probably why there aren't too many of them in American cinema. Someone's haunted, that's it. Such tales are atmosphere-heavy instead of plot-heavy, since motive and outcome are usually obvious. In this case, the atmosphere is a combination of spookiness (with some clumsy effects, and some smooth ones, like the pan shot across the room to reveal the missing LP which has somehow moved to the record player) and the neurotic paranoia of the hero, who reveals himself as trapped a sap as many a noir fool who blames his troubles on a dame. The plot delays and prolongs, but the last act juggles several nice twists. By the end, this cynical little flick has shown more style and imagination than several recent special-effects ghost movies.