A perfectly decent gaslighting-a-widow movie, complete with some stylish photography, an old dark house on a cliff top and crashing waves belog. Lynn Bari isn't entirely well cast as the widow - she's accomplished as always but just seems too inherently sensible for the role of someone losing her mind. She might've been better off swapping roles with the more fragile seeming Cathy O'Donnell who plays her sister.
Richard Carlson is the guy who likes Bari. The film definitely would've been better off had he played someone more evil. Turhan Bey gives one of his best performances as a spiritualist who may be good or bad... he turns out to be bad, but reforming. Donald Curtis is very good as the slimy husband.
Not a classic but a pretty good movie.
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