The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Mankiewicz, 1947): BFI Southbank, Studio, 12.20pm*
*There is another screening of this film on April 23rd at 6.10pm in NFT2. Details here. This movie is part of the Gene Tierney season at BFI Southbank.
Time Out review:
Apprentice work, comparatively speaking, not scripted by Joseph L Mankiewicz
himself (although he contributed), but still astonishingly
characteristic in its airy philosophical speculations about the
imagination and its role as a refuge when the salty ghost of a sea
captain (Harrison) befriends a beautiful widow (Gene Tierney) and intervenes
to save her from the cad she is thinking of marrying. Leaning too
heavily towards light comedy, Mankiewicz doesn't get the balance quite
right, so that the tale of a romance tenuously bridging two worlds isn't
quite as moving as it should be when reality ultimately reasserts its
claims. A hugely charming film, nevertheless, beautifully shot (by
Charles Lang), superbly acted, and with a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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