Fiction
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[United States] : Distributed by Criterion Collection
©2013
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1 DVD video (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #677
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Based on the novel by Dorothy Macardle
A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night-this gothic Hollywood classic has it all
Originally released as a motion picture in 1944
Special features: New 2K digital film restoration; Giving up the ghost (new visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda); Radio adaptations (DVD-Rom feature): Screen Guild Theater: August 28, 1944; Screen Director's Playhouse: November 18, 1949; Trailer. Plus, A booklet featuring an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme and a 1997 interview with director Lewis Allen
Director of photography, Charles Lang, Jr. ; music score, Victor Young ; edited by Doane Harrison ; art direction, Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté ; costumes, Edith Head ; set decoration, Stephen Seymour
Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier, Gail Russell
Rating: Not rated
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16x9, aspect ratio 1.33:1; PCM mono
English dialogue; English subtitles