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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 17-07-2004, 09:28 AM
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An old black & white British film i saw many years ago was titled something like "Cottage for Rent" or "Cottage for Sale"(Not the John Mills film 'Cottage to Let')& revolved around a group of people either looking around the cottage or sheltering there.
In turn they each tell a story & the film follows each drama.It was a terrific movie.
Does anyone know the title/actors & whether it is still available?

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Sounds a bit like Dead of Night which involved a collection of people at a farmhouse. Were the stories mostly supernatural?
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Possibly THE HALFWAY HOUSE (GB 1944) with Mervyn Johns as the landlord of an isolated Welsh inn where a number of people arrive all with their own personal problems and stories to tell.
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Thanks guys for the info.It was definitely a house of some sort that was up for sale or rent.
If memory serves me correctly i think the ending scenes actually showed a "For Sale" sign or something like that still standing outside the house after the visitors departed.
I think the stories were supernatural to some degree.
Gee,must be over 20 years since i last saw it!
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I agree with Hugo, surely Ealing's The Halfway House with a very young Sally Ann Howes of Truly Scrumptious fame.
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"THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD" 1970?.
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Old 02-08-2004, 03:23 PM
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I'll go with HACKETT, because didn't the house at the end of HALFWAY HOUSE revert to being the bombed-out ruin which it really was all the time ?

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Yep Smudge, Halfway House closes with Mervyn and Glynis Johns standing in front of the smouldering inn.

I'm not sure about The House that Dripped Blood, there is a 'To Let' sign (with a Bray phone number wink ) but the occupants don't 'shelter there', their stories are related to the police inspector in flashback. Not really a terrific film either.
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In that case DB7, is there a pub sign o/s the Halfway at the end, which may be causing some confusion ?

I have a particularsoft spot for HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD - a) because I grew up on those old Hammer-type horrors and [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img] Cos part of it was filmed down the road from where I used to live (and Sanndevil still lives !)

Finally c) I got to know the director for a spell, we corresponded - I asked questions, he put up with them. He's a very decent chap thumbs_u

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In that case DB7, is there a pub sign o/s the Halfway at the end, which may be causing some confusion ? [/b]
I haven't watched it for some time so I can't say but the image I recall is:

It may well be Halfway House because some of guests hadn't planned on visiting the inn.

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</div><div class='quotemain'>I have a particularsoft spot for HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD - a) because I grew up on those old Hammer-type horrors and [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img] Cos part of it was filmed down the road from where I used to live (and Sanndevil still lives !)[/b]
I do like the Amicus portmanteus but imho From Beyond the Grave, Asylum, Tales from the Crypt and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors are more rounded, better interwoven and have tighter segments.
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Mmm - have to agree, that's the image that I tend to remember at the close, so I was struggling to think of where the pub sign would be. But isn't there a long shot, or a pull back from the valley as it closes too ?

Darn it - I CAN'T remember, and my copy is buried here somewhere...once it cools down I may exert myself and dig in, to see if I can find it to check.

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I think i've cracked it!

After much research i think i've answered my own question.Of course i'd have to see the film again to be 100% sure but it certainly sounds like the film i saw many years ago.

I believe it could be "House of Mystery" (1961) B&W film starring Jane Hylton,Peter Dyneley & Nannette Newman.

A house hunting couple hear from a mysterious woman why an apparantly desirable cottage is being sold at a low price.

Listed in Halliwell's as "a spooky thriller."

Has anyone else seen this film?

Many thanks for everyones help in trying to give my movie a title.

By the way Smudge,has it got any cooler in Wolverhampton yet? I still have relatives in Birmingham - poor buggers must be sweating in their beer's!

Cheers Guy's!

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No Dave - it's still 'orrible and sticky here... sleep

If anybody has HOUSE OF MYSTERY, I'd be grateful for a copy (will trade) as I am intrigued to see it now....

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I've House of Mystery (oh no, it's Smudge again) but it's not that.

Only 1 couple enter the house and there's only 1 story told in flashback. Good film tho.
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Go on then, DB7 -

I'm game : wot u want to trade ?

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