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Summary: Unexpectedly wonderful love story
Review: On paper, the premise of the movie sounds ridiculous. A ghost and a woman falling in love with one another? But watch what happens and you'll totally be drawn in. After Lucy Muir moves with her young daughter and trusted servant to a seaside cottage, she discovers that it's haunted. However, she is so in love with the house - it suits her in a way she can't define - that she can't stand the thought of leaving. After the ghost, a sea captain named Daniel, fails to scare her away, they reach an agreement to live amicably with one another.The conversations between the two are initially hilarious, but gain a strong emotional dimension as the prim Victorian woman and coarse sea captain get to know each other better. Their connection becomes so powerful, you almost forget at times that the captain is a spirit. However, as right as they are for one another, there is still that physical barrier between the living and the fleshless. What's also interesting about the film is its psychology. Daniel is Lucy's ideal man - is he really a ghost, or just the product of her overactive imagination? Regardless of what you think the answer is, the question becomes increasingly important during the second half of the movie, when Lucy is pursued by a flesh-and-blood man, a suave and oily writer, who is certainly not her ideal but makes her commitment to the sea captain waver. As Lucy, Gene Tierney is wonderful - she is great in both the humorous scenes and the troubled, emotional ones. She makes Lucy come alive as the proper, well-bred lady who also has a quirky side to her, and a resilience not found in many women of the time. And Rex Harrison is marvelous as Daniel. Though I first cracked up when hearing his gruff, earthy voice, he quickly won me over. Especially memorable is his bedside monologue to Lucy, which will bring tears to your eyes.
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Summary: Classic movie about timeless love
Review: One of my favorite movies, every time I catch it on I stop everything and watch it. You should too. While it has its funny moments, which any story about living with a ghost will, it gradually moves from comedy to drama, when the Captain's Ghost disappears from Mrs Muir's life. They both know they will be together eventually, as soon as Mrs Muir dies. She lives the rest of her life alone, happy with the thought she will be together with the Captain the moment she dies. The ending gets me every time! He takes her by the hand after she dies and says "you'll never be tired again." Makes you wish you'll one day find such a person to wait for, even in death.
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Summary: The Ghost's of Love- Real Love
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This is one of those films that's a cult pleasure. A film that seems to transcend generations because it speaks to the heart.
Mrs. Muir is quite ahead of her time- wanting her own space and to live in her own way. The Ghost is equally exact in being what remains of a strong man. What's wonderful (if you're watching) is how that slowly begins to compliment and support rather than defeat their love.
This film is about missed opportunities; what might have been but what also slowly becomes 'what is'. It's about the hurdles in love and how, ultimately, no hurdle overcomes true love.
Tierny, Harrison and Saunders are excellent. The story is wonderful and the direction, mystical and atmospheric (exactly what's needed to pull this kind of a story off). Bernard Herrmann's score is my personal favorite of his- and an example of just how important music is to film.
Most important of all, it's an example of how to make a love story. That's not an easy task in any decade (especially ours)- and why it's a classic in its genre. A classic (period).
A couple can watch this film, and trust me,(especially when you reach the ending), will want to give each other a hug.
If you're looking for a good one, this is it.
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Summary: An unvarnished love story
Review: Widowed Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) is being stifled by female in-laws. In her efforts to escape she needs to find something affordable for her and her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood.) It turns out to be a perfect (large) cottage by the see with the view obscured by a knarly monkey tree. Soon she realizes she is not a lone. The ghost of the former owner, Captain Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), refuses to give up the house. Lucy also refuses to be frightened off. So the have to make arrangements. In the process they get to know each other and form affection. Looks like Lucy's funds are running out; so she with the help of the captain (a ghost writer) writes his memoirs as "Blood and Swash" to be published. In the process of getting the book published she meets a not so dead Uncle Neddie (George Sanders.) (Exit Captain Gregg) Uncle Neddie has a few surprises of his own. Now she is starting to believe she made up the captain. Years later here daughter now grown (Vanessa Brown) will tell her that she too knew the captain.
You will want to watch and see how all this comes about and find out how it will all turn out.
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Summary: My Favorite Movie
Review: I first saw this film as a small child back in the sixties. I have never forgotten it. Recently someone asked me what my favorite movie was, I couldn't answer because I didn't have one, until last night when I saw this movie again. Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney are excellent in this movie. A truly unique love story. An unforgettable classic. I can't wait to buy this on DVD.
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Summary: Unexpectedly wonderful love story
Review: On paper, the premise of the movie sounds ridiculous. A ghost and a woman falling in love with one another? But watch what happens and you'll totally be drawn in. After Lucy Muir moves with her young daughter and trusted servant to a seaside cottage, she discovers that it's haunted. However, she is so in love with the house - it suits her in a way she can't define - that she can't stand the thought of leaving. After the ghost, a sea captain named Daniel, fails to scare her away, they reach an agreement to live amicably with one another. The conversations between the two are initially hilarious, but gain a strong emotional dimension as the prim Victorian woman and coarse sea captain get to know each other better. Their connection becomes so powerful, you almost forget at times that the captain is a spirit. However, as right as they are for one another, there is still that physical barrier between the living and the fleshless. What's also interesting about the film is its psychology. Daniel is Lucy's ideal man - is he really a ghost, or just the product of her overactive imagination? Regardless of what you think the answer is, the question becomes increasingly important during the second half of the movie, when Lucy is pursued by a flesh-and-blood man, a suave and oily writer, who is certainly not her ideal but makes her commitment to the sea captain waver. As Lucy, Gene Tierney is wonderful - she is great in both the humorous scenes and the troubled, emotional ones. She makes Lucy come alive as the proper, well-bred lady who also has a quirky side to her, and a resilience not found in many women of the time. And Rex Harrison is marvelous as Daniel. Though I first cracked up when hearing his gruff, earthy voice, he quickly won me over. Especially memorable is his bedside monologue to Lucy, which will bring tears to your eyes.
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Summary: Poodle rates this 5 wags of a tail
Review: This great film touched me deeply.
I love everything about it.
Please do not forgett the tissues.
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Summary: A HAUNTING ROMANCE
Review: This is simply one of my favorite films EVER, and the DVD does it full justice with some excellent extra features - in fact, I'm actually surprised Fox went as far as they did for this film. I think I watched it 3 times the week the DVD came out, and have watched it since. This is the film I recommend to people who aren't sure what happened to Old Rose at the end of James Cameron's TITANIC - I never watch the final scenes of MRS MUIR without a lump in my throat and flowing tear-ducts - Ah, to be in love like that!
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Summary: Tierney at her best--Great Package, lots of extras
Review: Gene Tierney gives a performance so smooth that you can't believe it. She makes Rex Harrison's performance work, she is balance, determined in a very quiet way she dominates. The commentaries on the score, and the performances are excellent, except for Kenneth Geist, who is thankfully been edited short. Geist who thinks this is a man's picture is critical of Tierney who carries this picture. What a bore this would have been without her. He even suggest that the lovely Claudette Colbert was wanted and needed for the role. Just as we are so lucky that she was unable to do Mankiewicz's ALL ABOUT EVE, we are so lucky to have the subtle Tierney here. She is excellent--I was lucky to see Colbert with Harrison in a romantic comedy in the last year of his life at the National Theater in DC, they were wonderful together, she had to feed him lines to keep it going, but turning this into what the fabulous Claudette did well, suggestive comedy, would not have made this wonderful picture the gem it is. This film is moody and different, and thank God Mankiewicz, a true wonder, and Geist, a man who praises the great George Sanders in one of his most forgettable performances, and knocks Gene who carries this film didn't get their way. No one notes that Tierney was a lover of Jack Kennedy, even though they note that her husband, Oleg Cassini, designed the famous Jackie hats and clothing for Jack's funeral. If you look at Gene you see a resemblance to Jackie in carriage, manner and speech. This is a great film, buy it. By the way there are three other commentary's that are on the money--in fact the best I've heard. The package is impressive.
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