A Place of One's Own is a British film directed by Bernard Knowles. An atmospheric ghost story based on the novel by Osbert Sitwell, it stars James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price and Dulcie Gray. Mason and Mullen are artificially aged to play the old couple. Mr and Mrs Smedhurst are a middle-aged business couple wanting to retire. They find an old but cheap mansion in the country that has been vacant for 40 years, Bellingham House, and proceed to buy it. They move in along with their servants and soon learn the house is supposedly haunted – but Mr Smedhurst in... particular is sceptical of the paranormal myth. They invite a young companion, Annette , to join them but within days of arriving she steadily begins hearing strange voices. The new owners learn that a young invalid girl was believed to have been murdered 40 years previously in the house – and their preconceptions of the supernatural are challenged. When the spirit of the murdered girl possesses Annette, her health declines drastically and soon she’s at death's door.
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| Release date: | May 28, 1943 |
| Directed by: | Bernard Knowles |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Music by: | Hubert Bath |
| Cinematography: | Stephen Dade |
| Genre: | Thriller |