Gregory Ratoff was a good actor and also a very capable director. His version of ' Oscar Wilde ' competing with ' The Trials of Oscar Wilde ' in 1960 was in my opinion the better film, despite the fact that it clearly had a lower budget. As an actor he was superb in ' All About Eve ' and he was not afraid of competing with Bette Davis in various excellent scenes. ' Moss Rose ' is a Gothic thriller set in a murky 19thc London, followed by a sort of castle manor in the countryside. Peggy Cummins struggles with a ' common voice ' but she acts well, and Victor Mature is a man suspected of killing and Cummins becomes an amateur detective. But it is Ethel Barrymore who gives the chills, and she walks with regal excellence through the film. Enjoyable, improbable in plot, but I wanted to believe it all as I watched it. The 1940's was an excellent decade for these dark, and mild Gothic films. Some may confuse them with Film Noir, but they were higher pitched and closer to the horror genre of the period.