Inasmuch as this is largely a photographed copy of the stage play [by Noel Coward], the camerawork is outstandingly good and helps to put across the credibility of the ghost story more effectively than the flesh and blood performance does.

Nifty special effects for the time, and plenty of Coward's inimitable wit and repartee.

Worth it just for Margaret Rutherford as a sort of girls' school gamesmistres-style psychic!

From her first appearance, Rutherford injects a sense of anarchy into the staid drawing-room world of the Condomines like a grey-haired girl scout full of enthusiasms and up for just about anything.