A Place of One's Own

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.

Cast

Margaret Lockwood

as Annette Allenby

James Mason

as Henry Smedhurst

Barbara Mullen

as Emilie Smedhurst

Dennis Price

as Dr. Robert Selbie

Helen Haye

as Florence Manning-Tutthorn

Michael Shepley

as Alistair Manning-Tutthorn

Dulcie Gray

as Sarah

Ernest Thesiger

as Dr. Richard Marsham

Henry B. Longhurst

as Inspector Barlowe

Moore Marriott

as George

Reviews

John Chard

It is unhealthy to take seriously what is morbid superstition. A Place of One's Own is directed by Bernard Knowles and adapted to screenplay by Brock Williams from the novel written by Osbert Sitwell. Out of Gainsborough Pictures it stars James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Pr...

CinemaSerf

I might have enjoyed this more had I not got it into my head that the heavily made up "Smedhurst" (James Mason) reminded me of Robert Donat's "Chips" (1939). Aside from that distraction, it's quite an engaging drama that sees him and his wife "Emilie" (Barbara Mullen) buy an old house with an histor...

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