Blithe Spirit

  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
4/5/1945
96
NR

Elvira is the kind of gal who can turn an evening into a night you'll never forget!

A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.

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  • Geronimo1967

    You can't really go wrong with David Lean adapting Noël Coward in a film about poor old Rex Harrison ("Charles") and three on-form women: two of whom he married - Constance Cummings ("Ruth)" and Kay Hammond ("Elvira") and the other is the source of most of his woes - spiritual medium Margaret Rutherford ("Madama Arcati"). Right from the start, the pace of the dialogue is witty and engaging. Harrison - who can be terribly wooden on occasion, is well up for this spiritual lark as a seance at his home - under the supervision of the dotty Rutherford - releases his former wife "Elvira" back into his life where only he can see her; and she decides to cause the maximum amount of mayhem for her former husband and his new wife "Ruth". The nature of ...

    July 1, 2022

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