“James Mason brings his genius to the strangest love story that ever haunted two hearts”
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.
Bernard Knowles
R. J. Minney
Brock Williams
Stephen Dade
Margaret Lockwood
Annette Allenby
James Mason
Henry Smedhurst
Barbara Mullen
Emilie Smedhurst
Dennis Price
Dr. Robert Selbie
Helen Haye
Florence Manning-Tutthorn
Michael Shepley
Alistair Manning-Tutthorn
Dulcie Gray
Sarah
Ernest Thesiger
Dr. Richard Marsham
Henry B. Longhurst
Inspector Barlowe
Moore Marriott
George
O.B. Clarence
Perkins
Helen Goss
Rosie - the Barmaid
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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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Gainsborough Pictures
J. Arthur Rank Organisation