“The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” is a comedy-fantasy film about a young widow who rents a seaside cottage in England which she discovers is haunted by the previous owner, a crusty old seaman. The thin premise for the movie is made believable by crisp direction by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (“All About Eve” 1950) and a well penned script by Philip Dunne, adapted from the 1945 novel of the same name by R. A. Dick. The watchable film was a success at the box office for 20th Century Fox.
Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney lend their big screen personas to this picture with good results and good chemistry. Co-stars include George Sanders, Edna Best, Anna Lee, Robert Coote, Vanessa Brown, Isobel Elsom, Victoria Horne, and Natalie Wood as Tierney’s young daughter. It won a single Academy Award for the black-and-white cinematography for Charles Lang, and filmed entirely on location in California. A television series of the same name aired from 1968-1970 starring Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
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My Review
“The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” is a comedy-fantasy film about a young widow who rents a seaside cottage in England which she discovers is haunted by the previous owner, a crusty old seaman. The thin premise for the movie is made believable by crisp direction by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (“All About Eve” 1950) and a well penned script by Philip Dunne, adapted from the 1945 novel of the same name by R. A. Dick. The watchable film was a success at the box office for 20th Century Fox.
Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney lend their big screen personas to this picture with good results and good chemistry. Co-stars include George Sanders, Edna Best, Anna Lee, Robert Coote, Vanessa Brown, Isobel Elsom, Victoria Horne, and Natalie Wood as Tierney’s young daughter. It won a single Academy Award for the black-and-white cinematography for Charles Lang, and filmed entirely on location in California. A television series of the same name aired from 1968-1970 starring Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare.