While I Live (1947)

Directed by

John Harlow

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman is haunted by the ghost of her sister who died years ago. She believes her sister's spirit is still tied to the family home and a piece of music.

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What happens

While I Live is a 1947 British drama film directed and co-written by John Harlow and starring Sonia Dresdel, Tom Walls and Carol Raye. While I Live is best remembered for its musical theme "The Dream of Olwen" composed by Charles Williams, reprised at intervals throughout the film, which became hugely popular in its time and is still regularly performed. The film itself became widely known as The Dream of Olwen. The film was based on a play by Robert Bell; referred to in the opening credits as This Same Garden, it was actually first produced under the title Olwen in March 1947, with Hilda Bayley as Julia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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