Droll comedy (S.J.Simon and Caryl Barnes' novel 'No Nightingales' adapted by James Seymour) with neat visual and sound effects traces 'life' of ghosts over two centuries. Opens with a stunningly shot and lit track back over a dinner table with 100 or so diners, courtesy of Ernest Palmer (the British one). The complicated arranging then of the Great Exposition performers is another great one. Good music by Hans May.
Felix Aylmer and Robert Morley make winning ghosts. With Ernest Thesiger, Wilfred Hyde White.
A proper breakfast in 1900 is beer and chops, apparently.
Good.
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