BLITHE SPIRIT (1945) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: David Lean
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond,
Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield, Joyce Carey
A crackpot medium conjures up the spirit of a man's dead wife, much to the displeasure of his current (still living) one. Noel Coward's spectral comedy has a bitchy edge, but the dialogue really flies by, and it could take American ears a while to catch up. Rutherford's a hoot as the medium.
