El Loro posted:A few days ago I watched a British film called "A Place of One's Own" on the Talking Pictures channel.
Although released in 1945 it must have been made earlier, probably 1944.
It's also on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7QURJfjQcoIt's quite good and has some unusual casting.
James Mason (probably 35 at the time) and Barbara Mullen (best known the BBC series Dr Finlay's Casebook which was one of the most watched TV series of the 1960s) play the recently retired couple who have bought a house which there have been locals rumours of being haunted. No idea why James Mason was chosen to play a character many years older.
Margaret Lockwood joins them as a young companion to Barbara Mullen (incidentally this is the first film where she uses a mole on her face, and that became her trademark. Her love interest is played by Dennis Price, not the type of role he was better known for.
When I saw the credits at the beginning I saw that the additional designs were by a Rex Whistler. I recognised the name so did some searching to confirm that it was the same person. He was a British artist, designer and illustrator. He joined the army and died in Normandy in July 1944 (which is why the film must have been made before 1945). (By the way he designed the restaurant which is named after him at the Tate Modern), He had a brother who was also an artist who outived him. The reason why I know the name is because he and his brother were friends with my mother's mother when they were young many many years ago.
