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Robert Wise's The Haunting

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Robert Wise’s The Haunting has been one of the most haunted house films ever produced.I've seen this film with my classmates during my english class. This film is a black and white picture. The picture was once the most fearful film in the early 60’s.
This film takes place in New England, in a big haunted mansion. Dr. Markway, does research to prove the existence of ghosts, at the Hill House, a large mansion with a history of violent death. Luke, who stands to inherit the house, Theodora and Eleanor, with psychic abilities make her feel somehow there are spirits around the old mansion.
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, and Rosalie Crutchley. The Haunting is a story about Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris), a lonely woman

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