I love the prolific author, Barbara Michaels, a/k/a Elizabeth Peters, who wrote the novel that this movie is based on. With both names, she always delivered intelligent and interesting mysteries, often with a generous dollop of the supernatural. Can't wait to watch!
I remember watching this when I was 14. It aired as a Tuesday Movie of the Week on ABC and was in the top 10 shows the week it aired. Television was so much better than todays' crap.
I'm watching this ghost story in the afternoon as a winter storm is literally raging outside my window with howling winds ... like in this movie ... perfect timing. Spooky!
Watching at night after a long bath, while the storm howls down my chimney. Got a warm drink, fluffy socks and a huge long cardigan. I adore atmospheric haunted house movies or old psychological thrillers. Makes me feel so cosy ☺️ About to start dinner, tonight is a great night 🌙
Watching from Southern California on January 27, 2025. Many great actors in this movie. Really liked Richard Egan in "Summer Place" with Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue.
This and ‘A Taste of Evil’1971 Barbra Stanwyck- beautiful. Saw this mesmerizing actress in these long before I saw her in her heyday. The epitome of grace and style❤️
I saw this when it came out on ABC Movie of the Week which was shown on Tuesday nights back in 1970. This was one of the better ones along with "Duel", "Brian's Song" and "The Night Stalker"....
Ooh this is a great find! I love Barbara Michael's books and this story is a favourite...her Amelia Peabody stories would also make fabulous films! Thank you for posting!
Oh I LOVE the book, Ammie Come Home. This takes some getting used to as I always imagined that the best Ruth character would have been Hope Lange. Barbara Stanwick just seems like she could take down any ghost. Old man Campbell should watch his step, and Sarah seemed the perfect role for Olivia Hussey. The description of Sara’s dark haired, exotic beauty called for someone like Olivia. Haha, Monday morning casting agent. Haha, I should just shut up and enjoy this version without obsessing over every little detail.
@@BeachClubNovaScotia There’s no wokeness in the 70’s. Barbara Stanwyck loved fashion and Aaron Spelling agreed to let her wore different outfits for this movie.
Well....................yes....................absolutely! Perfect! Move in to a new house (an OLD new house) and the very first thing to do is.............have a seance! Let's see what happens......................................
Love this movie theater actors are very believable. Love me some Barbara Stanwick. The young girl and boy are terrific actors. So glad I got to see it.
Barbara Stanwyck is one my favorite actress who dominated the Hollywood of 30s and 40s with her glamorous look , but really sad to see her in this movie. Time is cruel and it spares nobody. I watched this movie mainly for her. Yester I also watched " Cactus Flower (1969) in daily motion . Ingrid Bergman was there but she was looking good there defying her age
Saw this recommended to me and saw Barbara Stanwyck was in it, so I had to watch it. She is one of my favorite actresses of the old days, she was my moms favorite too. Watching this now I wondered if my mom ever saw it, in 1970 I would have been no more then 3, so can't possibly remember, but I am sure if she saw it advertised back then she would have watched it. This was my first time seeing it, I didn't know she did any made for tv movies, but I guess since she was doing tv shows, like The Big Valley, she would have thought nothing of doing tv movies. Over the years recently I watched videos and read about her, and was happy to hear she was apparently a really kind hearted person, and not a snob or the bitchy type like some others were said to be. She had nothing but nice things to say about her co star in an early movie of hers, Marilyn Monroe, which the movie, was one of Monroe's first big roles. She said she was a good actress, instead of being jealous of her like others would have been. That showed what kind of person she was right there to me. Also another story of her was much later, in the 80s, when a homeless man broke into her home, and she talked to him instead of just calling the police, she tried to help him, so he wouldn't be in big trouble. Apparently the man was a fan of hers, and wanted to see her. Luckily he wasn't really a bad person, even if he was apparently mentally ill too, but he didn't try and hurt her, thankfully.
This is when old lady movie stars were making creepy horror movies like : Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Hush, Hush Sweet Charoltte, Who Slew Auntie Roo, What's The Matter With Helen, Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice, Hollywood Horror House, Rabid Grannies, The Night Walker (another Stanwyck one), Strait-Jacket, Berserk, Burnt Offerings, The Nanny, Lady In A Cage, and a few others I don't remember 😊
Listen, thanks for the list, but I have to say that referring to these older movie stars as “old ladies” is not very nice. God willing, we all get to that age too! 🙏🏼🥰
@MaritzaAgosto-e1g We weren't discussing Barbara's best films. We were ONLY DISCUSSING the great lady stars decades after their careers when they were young... now elderly playing in horror films. That is the ONLY SUBJECT we were talking about. BETTE DAVIS HERSELF MANY TIMES SAID IN TALK SHOW INTERVIEWS when she was in her 70's : "All us 'Old Broads' had to do horror movies when we got older, including me, because those were the only scripts offered to us at our age" (and who's going to argue with the great Bette)
I was born around the time this was made, and my parents despised supernatural and horror movies. This would have scared the bejeepers out of me if I had gotten a peek at it as a kid.
They sure moved right along!! Getting acquainted!!! Waste no time!!!
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⚜ Well, I'm a half hour into this feature and if I was Barbara, I would send Sarah packing! I don't like her. I never did, ever since the beginning of this experience. Now, I better get back to it. There's no telling what's going on in that house!
Hard to believe big glamour stars of the thirties and forties ended their careers in tv horror. Barbara stanwyk looked pretty good for an older woman here.
it was the work they could get. people like Stanwyk were actors by profession. It was a whole different mindset, not one of celebrity but of "this is my career". Classic studio system and the mindset of pre-war "big factory" work as an honest living meant that these actors literally went to work everyday on the lot. They couldn't not do it the rest of their lives.
I LOVED Richard Egan in 'Anything!' He was a GREAT Actor-A "BABE'-And A "REAL M-A-N!" You always get "Quality Work" from Stanwyk-(msp?)- Egan, & the other older lady actor, who used to be darren's mother on 'Bewitched.' The rest of the cast are just 'furniture.'
I watched a TH-cam video recently called. "The chilling haunting no one talks about- the Elke Sommers story.........Elke and her husband Joe Hyams bought a house in California that was haunted. They endured frightening sounds, events and eventually an actual fire in that home, they endured it for several years when they finally had enough and decided to sell the house. The Realtor brought actor Michael Anderson Jr (who is in this movie), to the house as he wanted to buy, they arrived at the front door, the realtor started to unlock the door when Michael goes, No, No, No I am not going in, this house is no good (or something like that), and he never went in......
Poor Barbara Stanwyck having to feature in this F rated muck! I do love a good ghost story and this is clearly based on The House Of The Seven Gables but honestly... 🙄👎
I'm confused. I know that lead actress is very famous and very beautiful but if she has white hair which is what it looks like to me how can she be the appropriate age for the man who they say would be a great match for her because he appears much younger. Maybe been like now women will be making their hair white even though blonde is not really white and platinum also is not white but it's hard to get those colors and so they at the studio just did the easiest thing which was to bleach it white and then try to pretend that it was blonde and she was the appropriate age for the gentleman. Anyone have any ideas regarding this mismatch?
Look at Marylin Monroe in her last unfinished movie "Somethingś got to give"! She has had exactly the same white hair colour and she was 35 ! Stanwyck looked great when she ws 63! In the 70ties women that age seemed to be very old ladies!
As a strawberry blond when my hair started losing color I dyed it for years on & off. It's a ridiculous time chaser! I stopped doing it around Barbara's age here & it became light blond! I'm okay with that. 😊
What do you expect from a Spelling production, lousy writing and directing. Barbara always the pro must have been disappointed in the swift decline the movie was headed to. A bomb! Barbara’s worst performance ever. The worst made-for-TV movie I have ever seen.
Yes she nice slim , still has her figer , and looks great , just stared whatching it after the coment , i hope not to scearnig ,coure the conplexrd i live in , we have dark shadows floting arounf and nices sound , , we all see and here it and anoys us , i ecnore the dark shardow , and have my fan on at night bexted to my bed so i dont here it ,
I would have gone much higher, maybe 7 or 8 out of 10. The movie keeps you engaged the whole way through, and the story is easy to follow. The characters are relatable, likeable, interesting and intelligent, although they move very quickly, for the era.
I would watch anything with Ms Barbara Stanwyck. Big Valley was my late Mother's favourite show. She was a wonderful actor 👏.
I love the prolific author, Barbara Michaels, a/k/a Elizabeth Peters, who wrote the novel that this movie is based on. With both names, she always delivered intelligent and interesting mysteries, often with a generous dollop of the supernatural. Can't wait to watch!
No one comes down a staircase like the lady from The Big Valley. Great movie, good Acting from all. Thanks.
She owns it ❤❤
I agree! She was a great actress from Brooklyn, USA! 😊
I remember watching this when I was 14. It aired as a Tuesday Movie of the Week on ABC and was in the top 10 shows the week it aired. Television was so much better than todays' crap.
I'm watching this ghost story in the afternoon as a winter storm is literally raging outside my window with howling winds ... like in this movie ... perfect timing. Spooky!
What an ambiance! Be safe and enjoy!
Yes please be safe.
Love it!!
Watching at night after a long bath, while the storm howls down my chimney.
Got a warm drink, fluffy socks and a huge long cardigan. I adore atmospheric haunted house movies or old psychological thrillers. Makes me feel so cosy ☺️
About to start dinner, tonight is a great night 🌙
Nita n beba, where are y'all?
Watching from Southern California on January 27, 2025. Many great actors in this movie. Really liked Richard Egan in "Summer Place" with Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue.
Me too, he was great in A Summer Place.
Love Barbara Stanwyck
Richard Egan was personified class in “A Summer Place.”
@@phoenixtimes2 He personified poor parenting. Watch the movie again.
im now watching it....1/28/25!!! central New York. schools are closed- snow day!
Barbara was wonderful throughout her career❤❤❤
This and ‘A Taste of Evil’1971 Barbra Stanwyck- beautiful. Saw this mesmerizing actress in these long before I saw her in her heyday. The epitome of grace and style❤️
I love all these old movies,I have some of them on DVD, but it's a shame a lot can't be found on DVD
I saw this movie when I was a kid but I had forgotten most of it. I liked it and it's pretty good. Watching in 2025 from Michigan. 🎉
Very good😊
I grew up in Michigan too. Remember the 4 0'Clock movie after school in the 1970's? That's how I saw this movie as a child.
@@toniam.2080 Was that Armchair Theatre? I´m from Lansing, where are you?
Barbara Stanwyck! What an amazing career and legacy 💕
Am watching this movie from Zambia, Africa
Hi from Australia 🥰🦘🦘🦘
@@florencechavula1413 I see people are watching from Zambia and Australia. Hello I am living in Tampa Florida.
Been to both of these countries
👋 from the USA!
Good movie , great actors , great story . Barbara Stanwyk has done it again 👏 🙌 👌 👍 💫✨️🌟⭐️😊 .
She is such a great actress. I live everything she has ever done.
Barbara Stanwyck aged so extremely well!
She was definitely very pretty at any age. Great actress.
Right?
When she gave up on Botox
@FllixRouge 🤦♀️
@@FllixRougeBotox for cosmetic use didn't occur until 2002 and Barbara died in 1990. Big swing and a miss!
I just love Barbara's outfits !!!! Stunning❤❤❤❤❤
They are fabulous! 💜
@@paulawilson5926Beautiful. Even the lovely bed time outfits.
What a great time it was seeing Barbra Stanwick and Walter Egan. A great cast.❤
I saw this when it came out on ABC Movie of the Week which was shown on Tuesday nights back in 1970. This was one of the better ones along with "Duel", "Brian's Song" and "The Night Stalker"....
Seen this movie when it came out in 1970 on tv, i was 9.
Same here! I watched it with my Granny and considered it very scary! But in retrospect it was a great time and I felt safe and secure!
This was a really great, fun film. I'm on my 3rd watch already.
Also a nice old one...😊
Thank you for uploading it ❤❤❤
Im eating hot soup on q cold day while watching this. Its cold outside and snowing brrrrrrrrrr. 😊
Barbara stanwick a great actress zs always a natural at it. Full of great actors we need more old classics to watch...
I've been looking for this movie for decades!
Ooh this is a great find! I love Barbara Michael's books and this story is a favourite...her Amelia Peabody stories would also make fabulous films! Thank you for posting!
I love her shawl and skirt set. I had one like it in brown tweed. That style was big in the 70s!
I love my shawl and those black gloves 🧤. Canada is cold and I love it perfect for this movie
Thanks for the perfect movie for a windy night
thank you for this movie great
What a beautiful woman and such beautiful dresses
They certainly were The best actors in the day,and movies were perfect
Thank you from Moscow.Subscribed.
Richard Egan. I brake for that man.🎯
I loved this! Thank you for posting. Also, now I need an orange pantsuit.
Barbara Stanwyk was in "Roustabout " with Elvis, and Richard Egan was in "Love me Tender" with Elvis. A fun fact.
Barbara Stanwyck was still a beauty.
Which one is she?
Always was
@@BeeLZBeebThe one with the white or platinum hair.
In her heyday, she was never really known as a beauty, more a character actress but you are entitled to your opinion.
Barbara was always so classy and elegant. This movie showcases lovely outfits on her. She is such an icon. ❤
Ms.Stanwyck has always been a classic dresser😊
Oh I LOVE the book, Ammie Come Home. This takes some getting used to as I always imagined that the best Ruth character would have been Hope Lange. Barbara Stanwick just seems like she could take down any ghost. Old man Campbell should watch his step, and Sarah seemed the perfect role for Olivia Hussey. The description of Sara’s dark haired, exotic beauty called for someone like Olivia. Haha, Monday morning casting agent. Haha, I should just shut up and enjoy this version without obsessing over every little detail.
Reimagining the characters is half the fun!!😊
70s supernatural movies were a big deal when they came out (or maybe it was my young impressionable age). We kind of BELIEVED them lol
Yes!
I would have been sleeping with the lights on for months if I watched this as a kid! Now I just want all of La Stanwyck's clothes 👗🥻 👠
Yes, remember ouija boards at slumber parties? We kind of believed those too! Everyone had a story!
I remember this as a kid.
Richard Egan is scaring me!
Great acting by the young lady! Blessings
I am watching this movie in 2025 in Brooklyn, USA! 😊
I am watching this movie right now in 2025 in Vallejo, California!😊 I hope that you will have a terrific New Year.
I'm watching from Hastings in England. Love these old movies when the world was not quite so mad.
Barbara's performance is masterful! Blessings
BARBARA. S. IS. So. BEAUTIFUL AND amazing. ACTRESS. I ENJOY. HER. IN. BIG. VALLEY 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Never thought she was beautiful but a great actress.
This movie was produced by Aaron Spelling. Notice that Barbara Stanwyck has on a different outfit in every scene that she is in.😊
As her character is a longtime government employee she certainly COULD afford it.
@@BeachClubNovaScotia There’s no wokeness in the 70’s. Barbara Stanwyck loved fashion and Aaron Spelling agreed to let her wore different outfits for this movie.
watching from Perth Western Australia 😂 Jan Wed 29th 2025🎉 Awsome
Super film avec de merveilleux acteurs . MERCI
Watching now love old movies ❤❤
Well....................yes....................absolutely! Perfect! Move in to a new house (an OLD new house) and the very first thing to do is.............have a seance! Let's see what happens......................................
No antiques were harmed in the making of this movie - Well not many
😂
Love this movie theater actors are very believable. Love me some Barbara Stanwick. The young girl and boy are terrific actors. So glad I got to see it.
Originally telecast on October 27, 1970.
I was not born yet lol I love 💕 all the oldies especially black and white
I was just a year old back then.
Awesome history. I love that house. Barbara Stanwyck is a little tiger.
She was 63 in 1970
pretty darned good
OMG that long black dress with the fur!
Barbara Stanwyck is one my favorite actress who dominated the Hollywood of 30s and 40s with her glamorous look , but really sad to see her in this movie. Time is cruel and it spares nobody. I watched this movie mainly for her. Yester I also watched " Cactus Flower (1969) in daily motion . Ingrid Bergman was there but she was looking good there defying her age
Subtítulos X Favor, Doblado al Español. A América Latina 🇨🇱🙏.
Doesn't everybody's nightgown, you know, the one you sleep in, have a full length zipper in the back? That would be real comfortable to sleep in.
Saw this recommended to me and saw Barbara Stanwyck was in it, so I had to watch it. She is one of my favorite actresses of the old days, she was my moms favorite too. Watching this now I wondered if my mom ever saw it, in 1970 I would have been no more then 3, so can't possibly remember, but I am sure if she saw it advertised back then she would have watched it. This was my first time seeing it, I didn't know she did any made for tv movies, but I guess since she was doing tv shows, like The Big Valley, she would have thought nothing of doing tv movies.
Over the years recently I watched videos and read about her, and was happy to hear she was apparently a really kind hearted person, and not a snob or the bitchy type like some others were said to be. She had nothing but nice things to say about her co star in an early movie of hers, Marilyn Monroe, which the movie, was one of Monroe's first big roles. She said she was a good actress, instead of being jealous of her like others would have been. That showed what kind of person she was right there to me.
Also another story of her was much later, in the 80s, when a homeless man broke into her home, and she talked to him instead of just calling the police, she tried to help him, so he wouldn't be in big trouble. Apparently the man was a fan of hers, and wanted to see her. Luckily he wasn't really a bad person, even if he was apparently mentally ill too, but he didn't try and hurt her, thankfully.
This is when old lady movie stars were making creepy horror movies like : Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Hush, Hush Sweet Charoltte, Who Slew Auntie Roo, What's The Matter With Helen, Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice, Hollywood Horror House, Rabid Grannies, The Night Walker (another Stanwyck one), Strait-Jacket, Berserk, Burnt Offerings, The Nanny, Lady In A Cage, and a few others I don't remember 😊
Thanks for the list. I am catching up on these. They are great.
Listen, thanks for the list, but I have to say that referring to these older movie stars as “old ladies” is not very nice. God willing, we all get to that age too! 🙏🏼🥰
@@michaelgrant7322
I'll two Barbara Stanwyk's films - Sorry , Wrong Number and The Lady Gambles ... those were also her greatest films .
@@elbasmeowLA213Couldn’t agree more. Very disrespectful.
@MaritzaAgosto-e1g We weren't discussing Barbara's best films. We were ONLY DISCUSSING the great lady stars decades after their careers when they were young... now elderly playing in horror films. That is the ONLY SUBJECT we were talking about. BETTE DAVIS HERSELF MANY TIMES SAID IN TALK SHOW INTERVIEWS when she was in her 70's : "All us 'Old Broads' had to do horror movies when we got older, including me, because those were the only scripts offered to us at our age" (and who's going to argue with the great Bette)
She was great in Thornbirds. (But Richard Chamberlain was greater….lol)
What a great film really enjoyed it
Really enjoyed this film. Barbara stanwicks nightwear was absolutely beautiful. Too nice to go to bed in!
@@julieoldfield5506
She looked beautiful 😍 🤩 with every outfit in this film 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬 📽 .
I was born around the time this was made, and my parents despised supernatural and horror movies. This would have scared the bejeepers out of me if I had gotten a peek at it as a kid.
Die,Die, My Darling Tallulah Bankhead 1965. Also has a young actor Donald Sutherland in it. Great creepy movie.
Yes! Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte with Bette David & Bruce Dern was too.
Thank you. I love good movies.
This looks good!
Good movie but TH-cam starts an ad every 2 minutes. That is extreme. I'll find this elsewhere.
They sure moved right along!! Getting acquainted!!! Waste no time!!!
⚜ Well, I'm a half hour into this feature and if I was Barbara, I would send Sarah packing! I don't like her. I never did, ever since the beginning of this experience. Now, I better get back to it. There's no telling what's going on in that house!
This a great reworking of Barbara Michaels' book Ammie , Come Home.
Oh my. That looks like The Walton house exterior.
Good acting .
Great story
No to evil seances. Creepy! 😈👹🔥
Hard to believe big glamour stars of the thirties and forties ended their careers in tv horror. Barbara stanwyk looked pretty good for an older woman here.
That's commitment!
it was the work they could get. people like Stanwyk were actors by profession. It was a whole different mindset, not one of celebrity but of "this is my career". Classic studio system and the mindset of pre-war "big factory" work as an honest living meant that these actors literally went to work everyday on the lot. They couldn't not do it the rest of their lives.
Barbara Stanwyck was 63 here. She sure kept slim and could still wear clothes beautifully.
*I LOVED Barbara's final scene in 'The Thorn Birds': she went :::NUCLEAR:::!!!*
I LOVED Richard Egan in 'Anything!' He was a GREAT Actor-A "BABE'-And A "REAL M-A-N!"
You always get "Quality Work" from Stanwyk-(msp?)- Egan, & the other older lady actor, who used to be darren's mother on 'Bewitched.' The rest of the cast are just 'furniture.'
Very strange film for Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Egan to be starring in.
'Ammie, Come Home' (It was a prerty good book too.)
Stanwyck was 63 here..great facelift
Looks very much like Walton’s house
Seriously these movies are scary…watching from LA
The young actress is 82 & actor is 81 now. Where's the time fly to?
There are plenty houses built on top of cemeterys some people do not believe but they can make life's miserable unless been blessed
good movie
I watched a TH-cam video recently called. "The chilling haunting no one talks about- the Elke Sommers story.........Elke and her husband Joe Hyams bought a house in California that was haunted. They endured frightening sounds, events and eventually an actual fire in that home, they endured it for several years when they finally had enough and decided to sell the house.
The Realtor brought actor Michael Anderson Jr (who is in this movie), to the house as he wanted to buy, they arrived at the front door, the realtor started to unlock the door when Michael goes, No, No, No I am not going in, this house is no good (or something like that), and he never went in......
Poor Barbara Stanwyck having to feature in this F rated muck! I do love a good ghost story and this is clearly based on The House Of The Seven Gables but honestly... 🙄👎
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This movie is really hokey.
Crazy Sarah 😮 o no she has been possessed by some thing Barbara stanwyck is a great actress😅
I'm confused. I know that lead actress is very famous and very beautiful but if she has white hair which is what it looks like to me how can she be the appropriate age for the man who they say would be a great match for her because he appears much younger. Maybe been like now women will be making their hair white even though blonde is not really white and platinum also is not white but it's hard to get those colors and so they at the studio just did the easiest thing which was to bleach it white and then try to pretend that it was blonde and she was the appropriate age for the gentleman. Anyone have any ideas regarding this mismatch?
Look at Marylin Monroe in her last unfinished movie "Somethingś got to give"! She has had exactly the same white hair colour and she was 35 ! Stanwyck looked great when she ws 63! In the 70ties women that age seemed to be very old ladies!
What?
She went prematurely gray, actually, & got sick of having to constantly touch it up. I think she was in her fifties when she just quit. 🤷🏼♀️
As a strawberry blond when my hair started losing color I dyed it for years on & off. It's a ridiculous time chaser! I stopped doing it around Barbara's age here & it became light blond! I'm okay with that. 😊
What do you expect from a Spelling production, lousy writing and directing. Barbara always the pro must have been disappointed in the swift decline the movie was headed to. A bomb! Barbara’s worst performance ever. The worst made-for-TV movie I have ever seen.
En español por favor.
Yes she nice slim , still has her figer , and looks great , just stared whatching it after the coment , i hope not to scearnig ,coure the conplexrd i live in , we have dark shadows floting arounf and nices sound , , we all see and here it and anoys us , i ecnore the dark shardow , and have my fan on at night bexted to my bed so i dont here it ,
Huh? Is this English?
@@HernandezJan when my brother had MS his typing made no sense 😢😢😢
Stanwyck must have needed the $.
Why does house warming portrait look like Desilu, Jr?
Barbara was a very wealthy woman. She didn’t need the money, she needed to perform/act understand?
Good movie poor sound equality
Richard Egan in A Summer Place..great scene wear he tells of his racist wife
⚠️ IMDb rating = 5.6/10⭐️.
I would have gone much higher, maybe 7 or 8 out of 10. The movie keeps you engaged the whole way through, and the story is easy to follow. The characters are relatable, likeable, interesting and intelligent, although they move very quickly, for the era.