Spooky goings-on at a seaside manor, with a likably bantering brother and sister happening upon the empty house and snapping it up for a suspiciously reasonable fee; soon, they discover not one, but two ghosts residing there, and with a little detective work they unravel the house's deep dark secrets. Handsome black-and-white film begins as a sophisticated comedy, and keeps its humorously level-head throughout the spookier second-half. Gail Russell, as a young woman who figures in the mystery, has beautiful faraway eyes and a lovely shy manner, but she's perhaps a little young to be paired up with jaunty Ray Milland. Still, the production is first-rate and doesn't skimp on the apparitions. The tidy film unspools nicely, and it stays pleasantly in one's memories. *** from ****
Review of The Uninvited
