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So why isn't it the House on Marsh Road instead of in? Don't know.
Patricia Dainton and Tony Wright are Jean and David Linton always down to their last British pound thanks to his drinking and not working. Suddenly Jean inherits a house from an aunt, along with 1000 pounds. Back in 1960, that was the equivalent of 21,000 pounds today.
You'd think Tony would be happy. He now has the solitude he needs to write the great British novel. However, all he does is complain. When he learns at the local pub that a real estate investor would buy the place for 6000 pounds, he wants to sell.
Jean won't hear of it. She loves the place, despite the alleged presence of Patrick, a poltergeist so-named by the maid (Anna Sharp-Bolster) who comes in to work. Patrick, she says, is there to protect the relatives of the previous owners.
Tony writes book reviews and does some work on his novel, but he can't type. He hires a sexy local woman, Valerie (Sandra Dorne) who is going through a divorce. She's not interested in him when she finds out the house is Jean's. Well, just supposing the house suddenly became his?
Good, atmospheric, short black and white film, with excellent performances and a great ending! Very entertaining.
Patricia Dainton and Tony Wright are Jean and David Linton always down to their last British pound thanks to his drinking and not working. Suddenly Jean inherits a house from an aunt, along with 1000 pounds. Back in 1960, that was the equivalent of 21,000 pounds today.
You'd think Tony would be happy. He now has the solitude he needs to write the great British novel. However, all he does is complain. When he learns at the local pub that a real estate investor would buy the place for 6000 pounds, he wants to sell.
Jean won't hear of it. She loves the place, despite the alleged presence of Patrick, a poltergeist so-named by the maid (Anna Sharp-Bolster) who comes in to work. Patrick, she says, is there to protect the relatives of the previous owners.
Tony writes book reviews and does some work on his novel, but he can't type. He hires a sexy local woman, Valerie (Sandra Dorne) who is going through a divorce. She's not interested in him when she finds out the house is Jean's. Well, just supposing the house suddenly became his?
Good, atmospheric, short black and white film, with excellent performances and a great ending! Very entertaining.
Such a delightful movie.
This is a totally fictional biography of Hans Christian Anderson, beautifully played by Danny Kaye in a sumptuous production by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Charles Vidor with a screenplay by Moss Hart.
I love the opening, which begins as a drawing and then morphs into a gorgeous set. And it's the perfect setting for a fairytale.
Danny Kaye is so musical- the Frank Loesser songs fit him like a glove. And what songs! These singing stories stay with you, especially the way Danny performs them.
Farley Granger and Zizi Jeanmaire are wonderful, and your heart breaks for Hans' unrequited love for the ballerina. But we know that he will survive and keep telling his vivid stories.
A charming film for the whole family.
This is a totally fictional biography of Hans Christian Anderson, beautifully played by Danny Kaye in a sumptuous production by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Charles Vidor with a screenplay by Moss Hart.
I love the opening, which begins as a drawing and then morphs into a gorgeous set. And it's the perfect setting for a fairytale.
Danny Kaye is so musical- the Frank Loesser songs fit him like a glove. And what songs! These singing stories stay with you, especially the way Danny performs them.
Farley Granger and Zizi Jeanmaire are wonderful, and your heart breaks for Hans' unrequited love for the ballerina. But we know that he will survive and keep telling his vivid stories.
A charming film for the whole family.
Barbara Stanwyck is Irene Trent, a woman haunted by dreams and nightmares in 1964's The Night Walker, directed by William Castle, costarring her real-life ex-husband Robert Taylor.
Stanwyck's blind husband (Hayden Rorke) suspects that she had been having an affair with his lawyer Barry Morland (Taylor). He has been tape recording her at night and she says things like hold me close and never leave me. He denies it, and in fact, she does have a dream lover (Lloyd Bochner) and has finally seen his face in a dream.
After her husband is killed in a fire, Irene dreams he's alive and that she is locked in where the fire started. Terrified, she moves into the back of the beauty shop she owns and tells Barry that she has to sell the house.
Once in the beauty shop, the dream lover shows up for real. And the nightmares become real. Or have they? It falls to Irene and Barry to investigate what is happening to her, real or imagined.
Boy, Barbara could scream bloody murder.
Really entertaining film. Stanwyck was 57: Taylor was 53. Though people aged differently then, I thought they both looked great. Loved seeing Taylor - my mother adored him.
Highly recommended.
Stanwyck's blind husband (Hayden Rorke) suspects that she had been having an affair with his lawyer Barry Morland (Taylor). He has been tape recording her at night and she says things like hold me close and never leave me. He denies it, and in fact, she does have a dream lover (Lloyd Bochner) and has finally seen his face in a dream.
After her husband is killed in a fire, Irene dreams he's alive and that she is locked in where the fire started. Terrified, she moves into the back of the beauty shop she owns and tells Barry that she has to sell the house.
Once in the beauty shop, the dream lover shows up for real. And the nightmares become real. Or have they? It falls to Irene and Barry to investigate what is happening to her, real or imagined.
Boy, Barbara could scream bloody murder.
Really entertaining film. Stanwyck was 57: Taylor was 53. Though people aged differently then, I thought they both looked great. Loved seeing Taylor - my mother adored him.
Highly recommended.