again, a fatally stupid woman, taken in by the superior (hah!) conniving man.
unfortunate that the movies still portray women as less intelligent; you know, running upstairs to get away (dead end) or into alleys (dead end), or just screaming instead of saving self, or running and ALWAYS falling thus man gets them.
sheesh

I cannot BELIEVE they changed the ending of this story! If you don't want to know how the book ends, read no further.
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so, in the book (a) there is no "lab" in the cellar, it's just where the husband develops photographs, and there is no problem with her going down there. In fact, that's where he plans on killing her, by getting her to go down there with him to help him with his work. (b) (a minor point) there is no "dark and stormy night". (c) (a HUGE thing) the wife figures out what is going to happen at the last moment, and there is the meal, and the coffee. But she had (in a very clever way and with her husband sitting right there) managed to get a message to her ex-fiancé, and was hoping he'd get there in time to help. She just needed to stall her husband for as long as possible, so when he started pushing her to go down to the cellar, she told him that she had a confession to make. She told him that she had been married twice before, and (in much more detail), that she had actually poisoned her first two husbands. She had been a nurse in the war, and knew about drugs. At this point the husband is starting to get very nervous. A wife murderer trapped by a husband murderer! She told her husband that the drug was a paralytic, and that he would be unable to move from his chair. He was so scared that he believed her, and actually couldn't move. She kept talking to him, telling him what the drug was doing to him, until her fiancé arrived with the police, and found her sitting there with her husband, who had died.Maybe not the most plausible scenario in the world, but REALLY cool, and suspensefully written. Instead, the movie had to make the woman this poor, helpless creature that had to be saved by the men in a big dramatic fight at the end. On a dark and stormy night, of course. Grrrrrr.

You know where the story is going but it's enjoyable the whoe way.

One would naturally expect a film in the mystery genre to be...well, mysterious. Sadly, the director and/or editor make no attempt to conceal the culprit from the audience, as they reveal his identity far too obviously within the first few minutes, and there are no twists or surprise endings to this film. (That's not 100% true--I will grant that there is one small twist towards the end, which I will not reveal, but it's not of any real import to the outcome of the plot.) The acting is fine and generally well done, but none of the main performances were outstanding or particularly nuanced. (Props to the creepy housekeeper, though!) Ms. Sidney's character baffled me with her gullibility and, without revealing any spoilers, it wasn't until the film's climax that I began to actually like her.However, the plot is solid, the lighting is sufficiently spooky, and the setting is appropriately both charming and foreboding. Worth a watch, but the film is not one that I would choose to add to my personal collection.

Suspense, thats what you will get....
Be transported in time! See the carriages. The brick building facades.
Syvia Sydney is going to make you feel like you are her, in her place.
You are going to like this one, for sure.

!!! Wonderful story!! Well worth the watch!!! I gave it an all around A+!!!