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Mary (Kate Harper) and Edward (Michael Shannon) have just moved into an
old mansion in England which is supposed to be haunted, but legend goes
that one will only realize he has seen a ghost long afterwards. Now
especially Mary cannot wait to see her ghost, but for the longest time it
seems she's out of luck. Then, a stranger (Rolf Saxon) comes to visit her
husband, and after that her husband is gone, as if he has vanished from
the face of the earth. Mary does a bit of snooping around in her husband's
business affairs and learns about a man, Elwell, he had legal troubles
with, but the troubles ended with that man's death. Eventually, an
associate of both Edward and Elwell, Parvis (John Grillo) comes for a
visit, and he tells Mary that Elwell has actually killed himself on
exactly the day her husband has disappeared, and a photo reveals Elwell to
be the very stranger who came for a visit on that very same day - thus she
realizes he must have been a ghost, a ghost she realizes she has seen long
afterwards ... I guess this one is a tricky story to be adapted
for the screen, because it gives away its ending pretty much with the
first mention of Elwell - maybe not in written form, but on the screen it
does. This adaptation goes about the problem at hand by postponing his
mention for a long time, instead setting up very little - which means the
whole thing gets slightly boring before too long, and when the
Elwell-subplot finally sets in it becomes disappointingly predictable. A
very old-fashioned and deliberately slow-paced direction doesn't help much
in that respect. At least the whole thing is well-acted though and the
sets are pretty atmospheric, which makes it an ok watch - but by no means
good ...
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