Blithe Spirit (1945)
- Directed by
- David Lean
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film, romantic comedy, ghost film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 167 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A writer hires a medium for a seance as research for his new novel. The seance accidentally summons the ghost of his first wife, who meddles in his current marriage.
wittylightheartedwhimsicalplayfulfast-pacednostalgicslightly macabrebreezy
What happens
Blithe Spirit is a 1945 British supernatural black comedy film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean, cinematographer Ronald Neame and associate producer Anthony Havelock-Allan, is based on Noël Coward's 1941 play of the same name, the title of which is derived from the line "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert" in the poem "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The song "Always", written by Irving Berlin, is an important plot element in Blithe Spirit. The film features Kay Hammond and Margaret Rutherford, in the roles they created in the original production, along with Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings in the lead parts of Charles and Ruth Condomine. While unsuccessful at the box office and a disappointing adaptation for the screen, according to Coward, it has since come to be considered notable for its Technicolor photography and Oscar-winning visual effects in particular and has been re-released several times, notably as one of the ten early David Lean features restored by the British Film Institute for release in 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Brief Encounter (1945)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.