Blithe Spirit (1945)

19451h 35mdir. David LeanUnited Kingdomromantic comedyfantasy film

Note: this print runs 95 minutes against a recorded 102 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Carey, Noël Coward, Hugh Wakefield

Directed by David Lean

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.

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