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Blithe Spirit (1945)

NR 04/05/1945 Comedy, Fantasy 1h 36m
70%
User
Score
7.0/10
78%

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

Overview

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.

David Lean

Director

Noël Coward

Screenplay

Ronald Neame

Screenplay

Anthony Havelock-Allan

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison

Charles Condomine

Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings

Ruth Condomine

Kay Hammond

Kay Hammond

Elvira Condomine

Margaret Rutherford

Margaret Rutherford

Madame Arcati

Hugh Wakefield

Hugh Wakefield

Dr. George Bradman

Joyce Carey

Joyce Carey

Violet Bradman

Jacqueline Clarke

Jacqueline Clarke

Edith

Marie Ault

Marie Ault

Cook (uncredited)

Johnnie Schofield

Johnnie Schofield

R.A.C. Man Directing Traffic (uncredited)

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Media

Blithe Spirit (1945) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Blithe Spirit (1945) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on July 1, 2022

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 the story keeps the cast small, and the action is...

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