Mr. Smedhurst (James Mason) and his Mrs. retire to a splendid country home, ignorant of its reputation for hauntings. Their companion/secretary (Margaret Lockwood) becomes host to the unquiet spirit of a girl who died there forty years earlier. William K. Everson: Never the success it deserved to be, mainly because the offbeat Mason/Lockwood teaming in the film was not what the fans expected or wanted, A Place of One's Own is Britain's much-lower-key answer to The Uninvited. In some ways one of the tamest of ghost stories, but also one of the most charming and disquieting. Ernest Thesiger's appearance is brief but telling.