The House in Marsh Road

Tony Wright - David Linton
Patricia Dainton - Jean Linton
Derek Aylward - Richard Foster
Sandra Dorne - Valerie Stockley
Roddy Hughes - Daniels
Sam Kydd - Morris Lumley
Llewellyn Rees - Webster
Anita Sharp-Bolster - Mrs. O'Brien
Olive Sloane - Mrs. Morris

Supernatural thriller based on the novel by Laurence Meynell. This entertaining and atmospheric low-budget feature rises above the standard expected from the much-maligned b-movie.

A couple down on their luck, struggling novelist David and his patient wife Jean, unexpectedly inherit Four Winds, a country home in Witherley that seems the ideal location for David to complete his long-awaited book. The house is rumoured to harbour a resident family ghost named Patrick, a mischievous poltergeist. Jean immediately falls in love with the old house but David describes it as giving him the creeps.

David is bored by the country life, feeds his alcoholism by spending much of his time in the village inn and subsequently becomes attracted to curvaceous blonde Valerie, a divorcee who's typing his manuscript. But Valerie rejects David’s advances because he’s married and penniless. He hatches a scheme to kill two birds with one stone; murder Jean, sell the hated country home and start a new life with his mistress. Sadly he fails to take into account the actions of a protective Patrick, who foils his attempts on Jean’s life each tie. After surviving two attempts on her life, Jean becomes suspicious and flees to London to confront her solicitor with her fears. When she later returns home later that evening she discovers Patrick has taken revenge in her absence.