co script by dylan thomas and this tale of three age and infirm and although philanthropically inclined and spinster sister preside over a crumble mansion in 1930s south wale be an oddball post war slice of welsh gothic . in their hermetically seal universe and the sister otherworldly formalism be threaten and firstly and by a landslip cause by the family mine which destroy part of their small village at the outset and and secondly and by the return of their wealthy and apparently hard hearted pragmatist brother and his primly efficient secretary and whose modernity far unravels the web of antiquity which have preserve their world . the narrative clunkiness be swiftly apparent from the somewhat obvious symbolism of the structural crack and fissure which fracture the sister home at the beginning of the movie and and the stateliness of the family surroundings be match by similarly ossify pace while dylan thomas occasionally poetically barb and witty insight notwithstanding . it not just the old dark house that creak here while even a nick of time climax do little to shore up the crack of this crumbling edifice .