"After her father's death, Maud, a young heiress, is sent to live with her Uncle Silas. She finds her new guardian living in a gothic nightmare of a mansion, and soon realizes that he wishes to murder her and claim her inheritance."
Robert Eddison
as Silas Ruthyn
Patience Collier
as Madame de la Rougierre
Lucy Fleming
as Maud Ruthyn
John Welsh
as Austin Ruthyn
Dudley Sutton
as Dudley Ruthyn
Felicity Hain
as Millicent Ruthyn
Lally Bowers
as Lady Ilbury
Michael Lynch
as Dr. Bryerly
Gwendolyn Watts
as Sarah Mangles
Roy Godfrey
as Hawkes
Christine Noonan
as Meg
Gilbert Wynne
as Tom Brice
Ken Campbell
as Crabbe
Harry Hutchinson
as Giles
Reg Peters
as Charke
Michael Redd
as Silas (as a young man)
Sheridan Le Fanu
Writer
Alan Cooke
Director
Stanley Miller
Adaptation