Blithe Spirit [Import]
by David Lean
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DVD Cover Information
Actor: Constance Cummings, Rex HarrisonDirector: David Lean
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Full Screen, Import, NTSC
Running Time: 91 minutes
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: LW Editora
Product features:
- Cover in Portuguese.
- Audio in English.
Movie Reviews of Blithe Spirit [Import]
Movie Review: Review Correction
Summary: 4 Stars
So I'd just like to say that I am not able to comment on the DVD itself as I don't own it. But the film is marvellous - full of witty dialogue from Coward and crisp direction from Lean. Harrison was a great comic actor and made the whole thing look very easy. If you've only ever seen him in My Fair Lady or Dr Doolittle it is definitely worth watching him at his charming best here.
The one thing I did want to say was that the product description above is wrong when it says Harrison tries to kill himself to be with his first wife. Slight spoiler alert now.....it is his ghostly first wife that tries to murder him so that they will be together again.
Anyway, do watch the movie if you get a chance, it's a great ride with many pleasures to be had.
Summary of Blithe Spirit [Import]
The Noel Coward/David Lean combination which turned out such dramas as Brief Encounter and This Happy Breed sets its sights on the viewer's funny bone with Blithe Spirit. Rex Harrison plays a novelist, newly married to straight-laced Constance Cummings. While researching a book on spiritualism, Harrison is teased and tormented by the mischievous ghost of his first wife, Kay Hammond. Believing that Hammond wants to ruin his marriage, Harrison enlists the services of local medium Madame Arcati (Margaret Rutherford in her funniest performance). When Arcati fails to exorcise Hammond's spirit, Harrison decides to kill himself so that he can be reunited with her and spare wife number two the aggravation of being haunted. But Harrison's plans go awry: His second wife is killed, and now he has two playful spirits on his hands! Technicolor is used throughout Blithe Spirit, with the ghosts' shimmering paleness providing contrast to the plain, everyday colors of Harrison's conservative country home. Blithe Spirit was later transformed into the Broadway musical High Spirits, with the original script bent out of shape to turn the character of Madame Arcati (played by Beatrice Lillie) into the leading role.Art House & International DVD Video
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