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starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Browndirected by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0024543071419
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: April 01, 2003
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 17286
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1947
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Description:
A romance between a young widow and a sea captain's ghost weaves a magical tale of immortal love. Determined to live her life the way she wants, newly widowed Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) declines her straitlaced in-laws demand that she live with them and moves with her daughter (a young Natalie Wood) to the seaside into a cottage haunted by the handsome, blustering Captain Gregg (Rex Harrison). A deal is struck between the two in the wee hours of the morning allowing Lucy to stay in the house and the captain to materalize only in the master bedroom. As they gradually get to know each other better, Lucy's spunk and stubborness gains first the captain's grudging respect, then his heart. But when another man woos Lucy, both must face that her future lies with the living, not in the spirit world.
Amazon.com essential video:
Joseph Mankiewicz's moody classic is less ghost story than romantic fantasy, a handsome 1947 drama of impossible love set on the picturesque turn-of-the-century New England coast. Independent young widow Lucy Muir (the luminous Gene Tierney), desperate to escape her uptight in-laws, falls in love with a grand seaside house and moves in, only to discover the cantankerous ghost of the hot-tempered Captain Gregg (a histrionically flamboyant performance by Rex Harrison). Lucy refuses to let the bombastic captain frighten her away, earning his respect, his friendship, and later his love. They team up to turn the captain's salty memoirs into a bestseller, but as his affection grows he fades away, leaving Lucy free to undertake a more worldly suitor, notably a charismatic children's author (George Sanders at his smarmy smoothest) with his own guarded secret. Charles Lang's melancholy black-and-white photography and Bernard Herrmann's haunting score set the tone for this sublime adult drama, and Tierney delivers one of her most understated performances as the resolute Mrs. Muir. Mankiewicz turns this ghost story into a refreshingly mature and down-to-earth romance. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Put this in on a rainy day and thoroughly enjoy yourself. Sweet and tender. A classic romance. Never tire of it. Rex Harrison is a perfect sea captain.
Rating: - Wonderful Old Movie
This has been a favorite movie of mine since I first saw it on TV as a child. It still moves me to laughter and tears. The acting is old fashioned, but it seems to match the date that the film portrays.
I would recommend this to any other romantics out there.
Rating:  - Not your momma's romance film.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947)
While I was a longtime fan of the TV adaptation of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which ran only two seasons but survived for years afterwards in syndication, I somehow never got round to seeing the film version until now. I'm not sure why. It's a Mankiewicz (Sleuth, The Quiet American) film, so it's guaranteed entertainment, and the screenplay is by Philip Dunne (The Robe). Add a cast headed up by Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison, and how ... Read More
Rating: - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
A light hearted soft comedy with a wonderful ending that will require a couple tissues. You must have time to watch the whole picture to get the total effect of the movie. The acting is supurb and it is one of my all time favorites.
Rating: - Wow what a great movie
Just recently started watching old movies from well before my time and I'm surprised at how much better they are than much of what gets put out now.
This could be one of if not the best movie ever (excluding the entire works of Humphrey Bogart-a class of thier own) Gene Tierney was amazing and the whole movie can't even be described it's so good-nothing at all can be said that comes close to the amazing range of feeling you get from this incredible film.
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