They meet a local young woman, Stella Meredith (Gail Russell), whose family history is inextricably linked to the house. Stella is dangerously drawn to the cliffs where her mother, Mary, supposedly fell to her death years prior. Why It Matters

A woman’s relentless crying that seems to come from "everywhere and nowhere".

The film follows Roderick (Ray Milland) and Pamela Fitzgerald (Ruth Hussey), a London brother and sister who purchase a beautiful, suspiciously cheap mansion named on the coast of Cornwall.