A Place of One's Own (1945)

Director
Bernard Knowles

Main cast
Margaret Lockwood; James Mason; Barbara Mullen; Dennis Price; Helen Haye

Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Description
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.


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