The Adventure of Mrs Muir

the Adventure of Mrs Muir ( The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ) is an American film carried out by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, left in 1947.

Synopsis

At the beginning of the 20th century, Lucy Muir, a young widow, buys a house on the southern part of England. It become acquainted there with the phantom of the preceding occupant, the Gregg captain…

Data sheet

Title: the Adventure of Mrs Muir
original Title: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Realization: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Scenario: Philip Dune and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, according to the novel of R.A. Dick (alias Josephine A.C. Leslie)
Production: Fred Kohlmar
Production company: Twentieth Century Fox
Budget: 1,96 million dollars
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Charles Lang
Assembly: Dorothy Spencer
Decorations: Thomas Little and Stuart A. Reiss
Artistic director: George W. Davis and Richard Day
Costumes: Eleanor Behm and Oleg Cassini
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Fantastic, lovesong
Lasted: 104 minutes
Comings out date: June 26th 1947 (the United States), May 26th 1948 (France), September 11th 2002 (arisen France)

Distribution

Gene Tierney: Lucy Muir
Rex Harrison: the captain Daniel Gregg
George Sanders: Miles Fairley
Edna Best: Martha Huggins
Natalie Wood: Anna Muir child
Vanessa Brown: Adult Anna Muir
Anna Lee: Mrs. Miles Fairley
Robert Coote: Mr. Coombe
Isobel Elsom: Angelica, the mother-in-law
Victoria Horne: Eva, the sister-in-law

Around film

turning was held November 29th 1946 with the February 13rd 1947 with Carmel-by-tea-Sea and Palos Verdes, in California.
the film of Mankiewicz was the subject of a Remake in the form of television serial in 50 30 minutes episodes, heading Madam and its phantom ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir ), initially diffused between 1968 and 1970. In 1947 it had already been adapted for the radio (Lux Radio operator Theater) with Charles Boyer and Madeleine Carroll.

Rewards

Nomination with the Oscar of best photography black and white in 1948.

External bonds

the Adventure of Mrs Muir on Internet Movie Database
Critical DevilDead
Critical DVD Classik

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