An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Margaret Lockwood
as Annette Allenby
James Mason
as Henry Smedhurst
Barbara Mullen
as Emilie Smedhurst
Dennis Price
as Dr. Robert Selbie
Helen Haye
as Florence Manning-Tutthorn
Michael Shepley
as Alistair Manning-Tutthorn
Dulcie Gray
as Sarah
Ernest Thesiger
as Dr. Richard Marsham
Henry B. Longhurst
as Inspector Barlowe
Moore Marriott
as George
O.B. Clarence
as Perkins
Helen Goss
as Rosie - the Barmaid