A Place of One's Own
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| Directed by | Bernard Knowles |
| Produced by | R.J. Minney |
| Written by | Brock Williams |
| Based on | novel by Osbert Sitwell |
| Starring |
James Mason Barbara Mullen Margaret Lockwood Dennis Price Dulcie Gray |
| Music by | Hubert Bath |
| Cinematography | Stephen Dade |
| Edited by | Charles Knott |
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| Distributed by | Eagle Lion |
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1949 (USA) |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
A Place of One's Own is a 1945 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. It was one of the cycle of Gainsborough Melodramas.
(The plot summary is copied verbatim from the website "Britmovie".)
Mr and Mrs Smedhurst (James Mason and Barbara Mullen) are a business couple wanting to retire. They find a mansion in the country, Bellingham House, at a bargain price. 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 (Margaret Lockwood), 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. A young doctor, Dr Selbie (Dennis Price), has fallen deeply in love with Annette and attempts to cure her but to no avail. In a state of delirium, Annette calls for old Dr Marsham (Ernest Thesiger), the GP who had attended to the dead girl 40 years earlier.
The film was based on a novel published in 1942.
James Mason wrote in his memoirs that when he read the script "not only did I enthuse but I even asked that I might be permitted to play the role of the elderly retiree in the story."
This was the first time Margaret Lockwood used a beauty spot on her cheek in a film, something which became a trademark.
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