House of Mystery (1960)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1960
Running Times: 56 mins
Length: 5040 ft
Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Independent Artists Ltd
Producers: Julian Wintle, Lesley Parkyn
Production Supervisor: Arthur Alcott
Unit Manager: Geoffrey Haine

SCRIPT
Script: Vernon Sewell

DIRECTION
Director: Vernon Sewell
Assistant Director: Jan Saunders

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photgraphy: Ernest Steward
Camera Operator: James Bawden

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: John Trumper

MUSIC
Music: Stanley Black

SOUND
Sound Recordist: John W Mitchell
Re-Recording: Ken Cameron

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Trevor Crole-Rees
Hair: Maud Onslow
Wardrobe: Vi Murray

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Jack Shampan

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Joy Mercer

CAST
Jane Hylton (Stella Lemming)
Peter Dyneley (Mark Lemming)
Nanette Newman (Joan Trevor)
Maurice Kaufmann (Henry Trevor)
Colin Gordon (Burdon)
John Merivale (Clive)
Ronald Hines
Colette Wilde (wife)
Molly Urquhart (Mrs Bucknall)
George Selway
Freda Bamford
Roy Purcell
John Abineri
Pearson Dodd

PLOT SUMMARY

A young couple move into a house and find that what has happened there still resonates in its rooms. The past story is related but it begins to echo in the young couple's relations.

Superb mystery with supernatural resonance with the plot of Sewell's previous The Medium (1934). The flashback story within a story elements borrowed from Sewell's previous Latin Quarter (1946) which moves the pace briskly along, a superb cast and a contemporary twist ending make this British B-movie film making at its very best. The films that Sewell made for Wintle and Parkyn's Independent Artists at Beaconsfield are all top notch and worth searching out.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Theatrical Distributors: Anglo-Amalgamated

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: A

1994
October
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

1996
April
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Daily Cinema no.8450 (28 April 1961) p.15 (UK)
review

Kine Weekly no.2796 (4 May 1961) p.23 (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.28 no.329 (June 1961) p.82 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

KEYWORDS

ghosts, play into film