Pre-viewed for quality and plays great as it should since it was bought new. Everything looks like new. Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats except pricey Criterion collection versions.

Filmed in glorious B&W, a superior ghost story that stars Milland and Hussey as brother and sister that purchase a Cornish house very cheaply only to find that it's haunted by a pair of ghosts, one benevolent, the other decidely evil.

Gail Russell is the young girl who exorcizes the evil ghost (in fact, the ghost of her mother who died in childbirth) and at the same time rids herself of her guilt. The film's ghostly manifestations -- a flower that wilts in seconds, a dog that refuses to go upstairs, a weeping voice, a gust of wind on the stairs, the smell of mamosa, a room turning cold, and a pair of doors opening for no reason -- have a real shudder about them.

Paramount, unsure of how to market the film, imposed several shots of ectoplasmic apparitions on director Allen to ensure that the audience knew that the supernatural (rather than Freud) was responsible. A serious American ghost movie was a unique idea in the '40s. No others were made until the 'Haunting' (1963).