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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   4,992 votes
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Writers:
Philip Dunne (screenplay)
R.A. Dick (novel)
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Release Date:
26 June 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Fantasy | Horror | Romance more
Tagline:
Is Lucy Muir's love really a ghost, or is it a man of flesh and blood she yearns for?
Plot:
In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted...and forms a unique relationship with the ghost. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
I discovered it because of the music, but love it for the story more (90 total)

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Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Canada:14+ (Ontario) | USA:Approved (certificate #11840) | Canada:G (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | UK:U

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In 1990 there was serious at talk at 20th Century Fox of remaking "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer in the leads, but the poor box-office for The Russia House (1990) killed it. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Although Capt. Gregg states early in the movie that he is a spirit and has no physical body, he does a very good job of casting shadows on walls, doors, etc. more
Quotes:
Lucy Muir: [referring to her romance with Miles Fairley] You said I should see men.
Captain Gregg: I said men, not perfumed parlour snakes!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Cheers: The Ghost and Mrs. LeBec (#8.23)" (1990) more

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I discovered it because of the music, but love it for the story, 12 March 2000
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Author: jackboot from New York City

I discovered this movie when a friend recommended that I listen to a recording of the score - by the vernerable Bernard Herrmann - and his score is indeed fine! But what keeps me coming back to this film is its heart and soul - and it is odd to be able to say that about a very proper Victorian mannered tale. It is a carefully structured story that would really be well suited for the stage. In particular, I love the comic relief in this film and its colourful supporting characters. Our heroine, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), is blithely courageous, though naive and against all advice lets a cottage on a bluff overlooking the ocean. The location is eerily remote and I'm continually struck by how spooky the setting is in the plain, bright light of day. The ghost of Captain Gregg (Rex Harrison) is at first brash and frightening but we come to find that he is a salt of the earth man of high principles.

Get over slick and callow modern film making and take a few steps back in time to watch this most charming and romantic of love stories well told on all sides: an ornate confection of a story, carefully and lovingly photographed, acted with aplomb and riding on top of a musical score that is as moving and powerful as the tides that beat throughout this film.

I find a personal connection to this story in that it takes me back to the days I lived on a northern island that was similarly beautiful though tinged with the bittersweet loneliness of a remote place awash in the deep undercurrents of sorrow and melancholy.

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