Please, do you recognize this old movie?

Sounds a bit like ‘Arsenic and Old Lace” but not the part about coming back and that the women were dead, if I recall it right.

Thanks a lot for your answer! I know “Arsenic and Old Lace” and unfortunately the movie I’m looking for is not it.

Was the house a big mansion with an amazing dark wood staircase in the center of a great room and everything was beautiful and well kept, and then he comes back and everything is in shambles with stuff hanging on the stair rails? He thinks he’s in the wrong place till he finds the tie?
Edit: I’m picturing someone that looked like Clark Gable.

Thanks! I’m looking for this movie for the father of a friend of mine… He remember only what I wrote. Maybe you have found it… What title do you think with Clarke Gable?

I don’t think it was Clark Gable, but I’ve seen the movie. They had a dinner scene, with an elegant meal, and the two sisters were stabbing each other in the back fighting over the guy. Then the guy comes back into town, looking for the place, and he stops for directions at a gas station/repair station and the mechanic tells him the sisters have been dead for a while. So he goes out to the place. And the ending scene is the guy coming into the great room, and it’s a mess. He walks over to the staircase, and he finds his tie and the last scene is him turning back away from the stairwell, looking back at the camera holding his tie, with a look of unbelief. It’s driving me nuts.
And excuse my manners: Welcome to fluther. :)

@Adirondackwannabe, it’s driving me nuts, too. I’m gonna join in the search.

Just wondering – could it be a Twilight Zone episode? Sounds a lot like one of them.

Here is a list of movies about haunted mansions which I’m perusing now.

I know that it isn’t Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, but that is also a black and white movie about two crazed sisters, starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. A good one to watch tonight.

Could it be the one “Silence Becomes You” – but that’s from 2005?

Sorry! You said “someone that looked like Clark Gable”... I don’t think is a Twilight Zone episode..

@janbb: It’s also in color. I love this question. It means I can do some research which also means that I am not doing my exercises.

Actually, adirondack said that but I wonder whether he is confusing it with Arsenic which does have Clark Gable.

Thanks for your cooperation! I was very tired to look for it by myself!

doing some searching but no results yet.

@janbb No, ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ has Cary Grant, not Clark Gable.

It is not the movie I’m looking for, but the short movie “Return to Glennascaul” with Orson Welles has something in common…

@ccrow You are so right.

@janbb I was also wondering if it might be an old Twilight Zone or an Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The plot sounds familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it. I don’t think it was Clark Gable. If it was, though, that would make it easy to find through his IMDB page.

I don’t think this is it but it worth a shot-
Death Becomes Her (1992)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Becomes_Her

It sounds very much like a Western version of Ugetsu. I hope it’s not a spoiler of this 1953 Japanese classic to say that it’s a ghost story.

There was a lot of swapping of plotlines between American and Japanese cinema in the years following the second world war.

Oh no right answer yet. Was hoping while reading the whole thread that there’s one already. : )

Drat, I’m stumped. My mad Googling skills have let me down.

^^ Me, too. It’s my memory that has let me down.

I went through a long list of Hitchcock films and TV episodes and could not find it, in addition to failing via web search.

Me too… But I don’t give up!

Any more clues, @babycr? Such as whether the actors were British or American? What did the lead actors look like (blonde, brunette, hairstyles, etc.)? What circumstances led the man to be hosted by them?

I’m sorry @hearkat but I have no more clues… ;( but I’ll try again to ask for the father of my friend.. Thanks!