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A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners. | Add synopsis »
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Cast

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Peter Dyneley ... Mark Lemming
Jane Hylton ... Stella Lemming
Nanette Newman ... Joan Trevor
Maurice Kaufmann ... Henry Trevor
Colin Gordon ... Burdon
John Merivale ... Clive
Ronald Hines ... Young husband
Colette Wilde ... Wife
Molly Urquhart ... Mrs. Bucknall
George Selway ... Constable
Freda Bamford
Roy Purcell
John Abineri ... Milkman
Pearson Dodd
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Directed by
Vernon Sewell 
 
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Pierre Mills  play "L'Angoisse"
Vernon Sewell 
C. Vylars  play "L'Angoisse"

Produced by
Leslie Parkyn .... producer
Julian Wintle .... producer
 
Original Music by
Stanley Black 
 
Cinematography by
Ernest Steward (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
John Trumper 
 
Art Direction by
Jack Shampan 
 
Makeup Department
Trevor Crole-Rees .... makeup artist
Maude Onslow .... hair stylist (as Maud Onslow)
 
Production Management
Arthur Alcott .... production supervisor
Geoffrey Haine .... unit manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jan Saunders .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Ken Cameron .... sound re-recordist
John W. Mitchell .... sound recordist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
James Bawden .... camera operator
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Vi Murray .... wardrobe
 
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Joy Mercer .... continuity
 

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First screened in 1961 as a second feature in British cinemas, it later turned up on American Television as an episode of "Kraft Mystery Theater" (1959).See more »

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overlooked gem, 26 February 2000

I saw this movie many years ago and thought it lost, but recently it showed up on a station listed but just out of range, so it's still around somewhere. Won't one of you obscurity specialists find it and put it on the market? An hour long (and thus consigned to the late show from word go) it's the best of Vernon Sewell's numerous little ghost stories. A pair of newlyweds show up to buy a house, and a shadowy lady tells them, in flashback, of the place's history. She starts with another couple who put up with insidious supernatural events, and came to learn, in a flashback within a flashback, the nasty happenings that turned this place into what it is. The finale, though not terribly surprising, delivers in terms of campfire tale creepiness. There isn't, of course, any rules to horror and people keep seeking that elusive formula of fright, but here's a quiet little piece that, with no evident artistic effort, presses just the right buttons. This is one obscurity that won't let you down when you find it.

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