The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
US 104m, B&W
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Cast: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders
Set in the early twentieth century, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a romance fantasy involving a recently widowed and independent young woman who rents a house haunted by the salty-ghost of a former ship’s captain. After he initially fails to scare her from his lovely seaside home, they eventually develop feelings for one another when Mrs. Muir agrees to transcribe his memoirs of his life at sea. After publishing her unlikely novel “Blood and Swash”, she uses the proceeds to purchase the Captain’s former home in which to live happily ever after. Despite the maudlin scenario, the film’s somewhat syrupy but heartfelt conclusion provides a fitting happy ending to an unusual love story. The film was eventually developed into a weekly television series which briefly ran during the late 1960s, but which was more comedy than romance (Klaus Ming August 2011).
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I was actually surprised to see this on the 1001 Movies You Must see list. But when I viewed it, I had to admit the dialogue was very sharp and with its very likable leads it made for an enjoyable movie experience.
Not really my cup of tea, and i don’t think I would include it in my list.