The Hungry Stones
★ 7 · 1960 · 100m · Fantasy · Drama · Music · Mystery · Romance · History
A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunted. As time passes he grows more consumed by the mansion and its air of romance, and the spirits that haunt it, especially a beautiful woman. Adapted from a Rabindranath Tagore story.
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