Characters & Themes
Dark Mansions (1986) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 96 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Jerry London
- Starring
- Joan Fontaine, Michael York, Dan O'Herlihy, Melissa Sue Anderson, Paul Shenar, Lois Chiles
A historian is hired to document the legacy of an affluent Oregon family and takes up residence in their sprawling estate. While there, she discovers she is an uncanny physical match for a long‑dead ancestor who met a tragic end, and soon the same strange events that doomed that ancestor begin to recur around her.
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