Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland and Joseph Cotten star in Robert Aldrichs classic thriller.

An elderly and reclusive ageing Southern belle is haunted by the unsolved murder of her lover, followed by her fathers subsequent suicide.

She asks her cousin to help save the family home from demolition, but her cousin also has her eye on her relatives money.

Memories of the deaths soon come flooding back, driving Charlotte to the brink of madness.