Academy Awards, USA 1947
| Winner Oscar | Best Effects, Special Effects Tom Howard (visual) |
United Artists
Directed by David Lean
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
Author Rex Harrison hosts a seance at his house to get material for his next book. He hires "Madame Arcati", played to the hilt by Margaret Rutherford, who manages to summon the spirit of his dead ex-wife. She materializes in a ghostly green hue, but only he can see her. His current wife thinks he is going crazy and talking to himself, until he convinces the ghost to carry a vase which appears to float in mid air to his wife. The trio carries on uncomfortably for awhile, but his wife soon figures out that the ghost wants him dead to join him in the afterlife. Instead, she ends up dead and now he has two ghostly ex-wives sitting around in his living room and bickering. He convinces Madame Arcati to help him, but once again cruel fate intervenes. Silly but thoroughly enjoyable, in absolutely beautiful Technicolor.
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