"Too much guesswork and fake mixed up with it - even when the gift is genuine - and it only very occasionally is - you can't count on it."
Introduction
As the summer holidays end - and the opportunity to watch multiple films on the same day I realise that I have managed to watch a bunch of films I had sitting on the shelf for a long time. The Shane Meadows films, some Pedro Almodovar and a few of the David Leans! I hope it continues and, with the nice quirky-ness of Blithe Spirit it puts me in a good place to continue the boxset. The film is a small scale Noel Coward play adaptation that, interestingly enough, had premiered recently on the West End shortly before David Lean and Coward worked together for the first time on In Which We Serve. As far as play adaptations go, this is one that clearly utilised the trickery-of-cinema to amp up the comedy and spooky-spirit tone of the play...
Influential Ghost's
Its a strange set-up, Mr Condomine (Rex Harrison) conducts a seance with his wife and a couple of