Tuesday, June 28, 2005

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Is it a ghost story? Is it a love story? Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz makes it both. Rex Harrison is the ghost of a sea captain hauting his seaside home as widow, Gene Tierney moves in with her young daughter. She is a stubborn woman and refuses to let an apparition frighten her away. The ghost appreciates her spunk and allows her to stay and soon has her writing his memoirs. It's a classy love story of the kind they just don't make anymore, and Bernard Herrmann's score ranks along with Vertigo as his finest with its forlorn, haunting, romantic swills.

1 Comments:

At 10:31 PM, Blogger Nate said...

Pure Hollywood sentimentality. I love this movie.

 

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