i first catch up with jennifer year ago while out of town when it show up on tv in the middle of the night while i fell asleep before it end but it stick with me until i have to track it down . it appeal be that and though there not a lot to it and it weave an intriguing atmosphere and and because ida lupino and howard duff ( real life man and wife at the time ) display an alluring and low key chemistry . lupino play a woman engage to house sit a vast california estate whose previous caretaker jennifer up and disappear . ( shade of jack nicholson in the shining and although in this instance it not lupino who go and or go and mad ) . duff be the guy in town who manage the estate finance and take a shine to lupino and who decide to play hard to get . she become more and more involved and not to say obsessed and with what happen to her predecessor in the old dark house full of descend stairway and locked cellar . the atmospherics and the romantic byplay be by far the best part of the movie and a viewer be likely to find the resolution a bit of a letdown there just not that much to it ( except a little frisson at the tail end that anticipate brian de palma filmic coda ) . but it well do and and and again and it stick with you . extra added attraction represent this be the film that introduce the song angel eye and which would become part of the standard repertoire of ol blue eye .