Average little cheapo which is an odd hybrid of standard 'husband plots wife's murder to get his hands on her valuable, recently inherited house' scenario, and a semi-comic sub-plot featuring a largely benign ghost, nicknamed Patrick, who haunts the house in question. Patrick's interventions are mischievous, though he does turn nasty when evil's afoot. The problem is that the ghost's input into the film is neither comic enough to be comedy, nor spooky enough to be spooky, so the plot could function without it, just requiring another way for the villains to get their comeuppance (which is the only real purpose for Patrick to be in it).
The inherited house has rescued Jean and David (Patricia Dianton and Tony Wright) from a life of unpaid bills, living in temporary digs, and scraping by as best they can. The house is worth a few thousand, David wants to sell it, Jean wants to live in it, and there's the problem. David is an unspeakable cad, trying to write a novel, but boozing it up instead most of the time, and mostly living off Jean. When he meets sexy Valerie (Sandra Dorne) the die is cast, and Jean will have to be bumped off so that he and his new love can get the house. But Patrick protects his owner with timely interventions, and then unleashes his full power on the scheming couple at the end. There's some clunky dialogue, Valerie's character has a strange moral code which doesn't allow her to be seduced until her divorce has come through, but lets her jump straight into David's marital bed as soon as it has, and encourages him to commit murder. The big mystery is why any woman would fall for this snake, let alone two of them. The film as a whole is neither one thing or the other, but it's harmless enough.
The inherited house has rescued Jean and David (Patricia Dianton and Tony Wright) from a life of unpaid bills, living in temporary digs, and scraping by as best they can. The house is worth a few thousand, David wants to sell it, Jean wants to live in it, and there's the problem. David is an unspeakable cad, trying to write a novel, but boozing it up instead most of the time, and mostly living off Jean. When he meets sexy Valerie (Sandra Dorne) the die is cast, and Jean will have to be bumped off so that he and his new love can get the house. But Patrick protects his owner with timely interventions, and then unleashes his full power on the scheming couple at the end. There's some clunky dialogue, Valerie's character has a strange moral code which doesn't allow her to be seduced until her divorce has come through, but lets her jump straight into David's marital bed as soon as it has, and encourages him to commit murder. The big mystery is why any woman would fall for this snake, let alone two of them. The film as a whole is neither one thing or the other, but it's harmless enough.