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The Ghost and Mrs Muir

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Time Out says

Apprentice work, comparatively speaking, not scripted by Mankiewicz himself (although he contributed), but still astonishingly characteristic in its airy philosophical speculations about the imagination and its role as a refuge when the salty ghost of a sea captain (Harrison) befriends a beautiful widow (Tierney) and intervenes to save her from the cad she is thinking of marrying. Leaning too heavily towards light comedy, Mankiewicz doesn't get the balance quite right, so that the tale of a romance tenuously bridging two worlds isn't quite as moving as it should be when reality ultimately reasserts its claims. A hugely charming film, nevertheless, beautifully shot (by Charles Lang), superlby acted, and with a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann.

Release Details

  • Duration:104 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Joseph L Mankiewicz
  • Screenwriter:Philip Dunne
  • Cast:
    • Gene Tierney
    • Rex Harrison
    • George Sanders
    • Edna Best
    • Vanessa Brown
    • Anna Lee
    • Robert Coote
    • Natalie Wood
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