Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit

6.9IMDb Score
Released:1945-04-05
Duration:96 min
Director:David Lean
Actors:Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Production:Noel Coward-Cineguild, Two Cities Films, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Overview:

A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.

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