certainly and quite early on in his career and jimmy lydon be trap in the henry aldrich series and while life with father may have be his most prestigious film and strange illusion give him his best role . paul csrtwright ( jimmy lydon ) be trouble by recur nightmare in which his dead father warn him about a stranger evil intention about his family . he be stay with his teacher dr. vincent ( regis toomey ) but feel he must go home at once to protect his mother and his sister . when he arrive home he find his mother and virginia ( sally eilers ) have be see a lot of brett curtis ( warren william ) a man who paul feel uneasy about at first sight . his sister dorothy have a great crush on him but brett be a sinister villain with a weakness for young girl . paul dream start to come true and dorothy receive a bracelet from curtis and he hear a very loud concerto and then faint . he decide to investigate curtis and with the help of the family servant and ben ( george reed ) and who have never like curtis . before he die and paul father start to investigate a shocking unsolved crime involve the drowning of a wealthy young widow . paul have a right to be worry and brett have a grudge against cartwright and whose meddling stop his plan year before he now want revenge . brett first plan be to convince virginia to marry him and then to have paul commit to a sanatorium . meanwhile paul friend lydia confess that she have have a confrontation with brett at her family pool and have always felt uncomfortable around him . paul be keen to go to the hospital he think he will find out something there a brett be very close with the head doctor . this be a really good movie with the dream sequence a bit of a twist on the tired old why would not anyone believe me style plot . warren william make these type of role his own the icy exterior hide deep feeling ( in this case murderous ) . sally eilers look lovely a the mother and caught in the middle of a suave conman and her son concern . both of these fine actor leave the screen in the next couple of year . again and it be a movie i would recommend .