Sunday, 12 June 2011

Blithe Spirit (1945 David Lean)

Written and produced by Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allen.

Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond (Elvira), Margaret Rutherford (energetic - 'That cuckoo's very angry,' 'How can you tell?' 'Timbre.')

The photography (Neame) and make up are very clever, especially in outdoor scenes. Love the realism of the garden backdrop (except when it doesn't move in storm!)

Maid Jacqueline Clarke also in The Way to the Stars.

Suffers from Coward's insistence to change not one detail from the play.

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