A young woman's mother has died. She's paraplegic. Her parents were divorced. She returns to her wealthy father's villa in France. She hadn't seen or spoken to him in ten years. When she arrives they tell her he's gone, went away somewhere, but he'll be back. She hangs around with her stepmother and some household servants but starts seeing her father's corpse which appears sitting in chairs at night in the dark. She screams and rolls away each time, but when people come to see what's wrong they can't find the body.
She befriends the chauffeur who helps her investigate. There's a scene where he appears in a terribly immodest swimsuit.
It looked beautiful, well-made in black & white. Not as scary or creepy as it might have been. There are a couple of twists at the end that weren't that surprising.
A Hammer film. Christopher Lee in a supporting role as the family doctor. Starring Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd and Ronald Lewis. Directed by Seth Holt.
Free on Tubi.
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