The film The Haunting of Hill House, starring Julie Harris and Claire Bloom, premiered in 1963, and it now is often rerun on cable or network television.

The Hill House of the movie was Ettington Hall, in England, a house quite close to the architecture of the house in the novel. Jackson was quite pleased with the movie, itself a commercial success — and the movie does adhere much more closely to the story line and effects of the novel than do most movie adaptations.

Ray Miller, Jr.