Yes, it's me. I'm back. Sort of.
Anyhow, I've been hunting down every movie I can find with Eric Portman in it and screened
this very recently. It's an odd movie. Wealthy eccentric artist spots bored young socialite and is instantly taken with her (and vice versa). He insists on living in an anachronistic manner (house lit by candlelight, servant asked to wear Dickensian kind of garb). They play some rather odd dress up games (not like that
). He's convinced they are the reincarnations of two former lovers. Spoiler-laden review
here. Lot of interesting similarities to DS. A portrait that looks just like the heroine. Special room that he has just for her, etc. Couple of people have posited that the writers of the novel on which Vertigo is based might have been influenced by this as well.
I've only been able to find a copy on VHS and the print is awful, but I loved this. Very much worth hunting down....
Oh and Christopher Lee and Lois Maxwell have very tiny parts in it.