i saw this film several year ago on television here in france and think it be great . it be so eerie and atmospheric . jean simmons be lovely and fetch a young caroline whose evil uncle silas and play superbly by derrick demarney and his unscrupulous cohort madame rougierre try to do away with her in a gloomy mansion along with the aid of silas son dudley ( katina paxinou be brilliant a madame ) . unfortunately and i do not have a vcr back then and so i couldn not record it . now that i have get a video recorder and the only place that i have find it to be available be over in the state . they only carry the american release version from the early 1950 when jean simmons really catch on over there . the films title be change to the inheritance and a scene where uncle silas have dudley propose marriage to caroline have be cut by the censure ( incest be taboo in american cinema back then ) . uncle silas then force dudley to leave the house only to sneak him back later in the wee hour of the morning . in the american print we be not sure who that someone be ( or why someone be be sneak back into the house ) . it would seem confuse if you have never see the uncut british original . lastly and in the british version uncle silas overdoses and dy . for some strange reason and in the american version he kill himself with a self inflict gun shot wound . if you can get the british one and do . if not and the american release copy be a worthy second . out of star . p. s. it also a great book ( uncle silas by j. s. lefanu ) and it back in print .