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Summary: Classic
Review: Previously I had only seen the TV sitcom when I was a child and enjoyed it then. I knew nothing about the existence of the movie until recently. I rented it and was pleasantly surprised. It was a perfect blend of romance and comedy. A truly appealing fantasy that's worth seeing.
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Summary: Best Movie Ever
Review: I would give this fifteen stars if I could. It is, in my opinion, the best movie of all time. After watching it over and over, I think the magic element is sexual tension. Lucy Muir, after the death of her husband, decides to take her daughter and maid and live by the seaside - away from her histrionic mother-in-law and domineering sister-in-law. She falls in love first with a particular house on the coast called Gull Cottage and, despite the warning of the realtor, moves in. It is not long before she meets Captain Gregg (Rex Harrison). This is the sexiest role Rex Harrison ever played. The man is absolutely the masculine ideal. Captain Gregg is a sea captain who designed and built Gull Cottage and has plans for his house that doesn't include a lot of strangers barging in. In Lucy's case, he allows her to stay after he finds that she has 'spunk'. When Lucy's source of income peters out and she is forced to either take in lodgers or leave, you see the tenderness in Captain Gregg come out as he helps her to find a solution to stay in the house. Though he won't admit it, he is falling in love. Over the next year, their relationship deepens and she loves him too. But then she begins to be pursued by the children's author, Uncle Neddy. Can her love for the late Captain Gregg win over the affections of a live man? Be sure to have your Kleenex handy. No matter how many times I see this, I cry.
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Summary: A great surprise
Review: Having only seen the tv sitcom based on this movie, I was less than enthused to see this film. What a surprise, that it was a powerful and touching film aobut how true love and *soulmates* transends death. I think there was great potential for this to be hokey. The premise lends itself to the rediculous. Case in point, the tv show. But this was really beautiful and I was transported to a state of suspended belief where I truly wished that love like this was possible. I really recommend this film, as a classic love story.
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Summary: Classic Romance
Review: The DVD edition of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is worth the price. A beautifully produced film, Ghost is a fine example of the old studio system at its best. The cinematography (Charles Lang), set decoration, and the wonderful score by Bernard Herrmann help make this film shine decades after it was first produced. Gene Tierney, at the height of her popularity and star power turns in an excellent performance as Lucy Muir. Her Lucy is a warm yet vulnerable woman longing for a loving relationship. Little did she know that her soul mate would be a dead sea captain. As strange as the plot sounds, the story works incredibly well. Rex Harrison was never better as the ghost of Captain Gregg and he and Tierney have genuine screen chemistry, it's a shame this is their only film together. The DVD has some interesting commentaries and other extras including production stills showing the cast and crew in casual/candid poses. It also includes a biography of Harrison. Too bad they didn't include one on Tierney, especially considering her importance to the Fox studio during the 1940s. Some minor things that bug film buffs is the changing of the star billing. Tierney was top billed, but on the DVD cover packaging, Rex is top billed. This is supposed to be part of the Fox "Studio Classics" series, so I don't know why they don't keep to the original billing, artwork, and so on. The packaging also says this film was a 1942 Academy Award nominee, which is impossible since the film was released in 1947. The movie and the transfer rate five stars, but the packaging is probably about a 3.5. Would have liked to have seen them do as good a job with Ghost as Fox did with The Day The Earth Stood Still. All in all, this DVD is still worthy of any buff's film collection.
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Summary: Classic Romantic Film with excellent cast.
Review: They do not come any better then this. I own the VHS tape and was waiting for the DVD to be issued (Only doing that with GOOD films).
Enjoy the class of Tierney/Harrison and the direction of Mankiewitz. A CLASSIC.
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Summary: great romantic classic
Review: i am an avid collector of classis films, have been since i was 18 years old. i am now 36. i actually watched this film in it's entirety for the first time tonight. it was great!! i thoroughly enjoyed this timeless classic. the price is a bargain, especially since it includes ample special features.regarding the DVD transfer, i noticed some of the other reviewers complained about the lack of clarity of the picture. i personally thought it was good. although i wouldn't say it's superior, but it's certainly above average. it's worth the price.
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Summary: Ghost comes to Roost
Review: I love this old movie. There are the obvious actor interactions that make this film such a joy to watch... timid Gene Tierney versus the gruff sexy Rexy, with poof George Sanders as the philandering kiddy author. But there is also great cinematic tension built here by that master of film scores, Bernard Herrmann. Known for his work with Orson Wells and Alfred Hitchcock, Herrmann has woven a series of musical cues that help the film flow with dramatic punctuation. This score is separately available and I would highly recommend it to those who love to listen to film scores. When you've got Joe Mankiewicz at the helm (All About Eve, Cleopatra, etc.) you know you are going to get a very high quality product. He not only won oscars for directing, but also producing and writing. This film shows his fine art of filmmaking craft was well honed.
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Summary: Loved this movie when i was five
Review: i am 24. i have not seen this movie since i was ten, i saw it many times before that, but never since. It has been fourteen years since i last saw it, but i can still remember every moment of this wonderful film. it is what a classic should be.
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Summary: A Ghost Story that Isn't
Review: Story: Gene Tierney plays Mrs. Muir, a widow who is tired of living with her repressive sister-in-law and mother-in-law, and takes her daughter and maid away to live on the seacoast. They rent a house, and then Mrs. Muir finds that Gull Cottage is haunted by its former owner, a salty and flamboyant but intelligent sea captain (Rex Harrison). Initial animosity quickly turns to mutual respect and eventually to friendship and even a romance-that-isn't. When Mrs. Muir is courted by a children's author (a smooth but smarmy George Sanders), Captain Greg fades away to allow Mrs. Muir to live a real life, whether it be good or bad. But, that is far from the end. Commentary: The score is perfect, the cottage and its setting are perfect, and the acting is superb. This is a ghost story, technically, but it is more drama and romance than supernatural, especially as the film progresses. Natalie Wood plays a too-small part as young Anna Muir (the widow's daughter). Gene Tierney is quietly perfect and Rex Harrison is brashly perfect. This is a keeper!
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Summary: A Cinematic Dream
Review: Dreams are poetry wrote a French anthropologist. Cinema is that medium in which we can view dreams while awake. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" is the rarest of films, one which reveals that while our deepest human aspirations may be spun from the same stuff that dreams are made of, such dreams are what give us our depth, our dignity, and our truest reality as individuals.
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," like all true art, is a perfect fusion of fantasy and reality. Lucy Muir, as portrayed by the luminous Gene Tierney, is one of cinemas' most enchanting characters. Ordinary in manner she radiates an exotic beauty at once ethereal and down to earth. An independent spirit who longs to transcend the stifling conventions of Victorian England, Mrs. Muir never quite manages to find what she is looking for within the confines of her social milieu. Her relationship with her daughter and her maid are enduring, but true love eludes her. Only with the spirit of a seaman named captain Greg who haunts her cottage does Lucy find true companionship. In the person of Rex Harrison, captain Greg is at once blustery and tender. Harrison's performance embodies virile masculinity, humor, and compassion. He is, in short, Lucy's ideal man. Too bad he is only a ghost, a figment of her imagination, a dream. But he helps her write her book, he sustains her spirit, and encourages her growth in ways no one else can. He is, of course, a jealous ghost, and when Lucy finds a flesh and blood man in the person of Miles Fairley as played by George Sanders, he departs. Sanders, with his mellifluous baritone and smarmy charm is tailor made to play the debonair cad that sweeps Lucy off her feet only to leave her in the lurch.
The entire cast is superlative, but the chemistry between Tierney and Harrison is something even a notch above that. Every aspect of this film is satisfying from Charles Lang's breathtaking cinematography (Oscar nominated) to Bernard Herman's haunting score. Fox has included a wealth of bonus materials that make this DVD an even better way to experience this wonderful movie. There are two informative film commentaries, six theatrical trailers (which include the trailer for "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir), a forty-five minute documentary of the life of Rex Harrison, and numerous production stills, photos, lobby cards, and posters. The film print itself is pristine and nearly flawless, displaying superb contrast in rich detail. Fox provides two soundtracks: a Dolby stereo mix which brings out the depth and detail of Herman's beautiful score, or the original mono soundtrack.
Nearly every one of the cast and principal filmmakers who brought this film to life have passed on (with the exception of the beautiful Anna Lee). But the art they created transcends them. This is a film about love's power to survive death. Perhaps only in Hollywood could such dreams come true. But to watch this magnificent film is to see a dream come true.
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