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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1947 DVD Release: 04/01/2003 Format: DVD - Black and White - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 44 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 51 Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Romantic Fantasy

Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by R.A. Dick. Gene Tierney plays turn-of-the-century widow Lucy Muir, who escapes her impossible in-laws by moving into an old house on the English seacoast. Despite the warnings of realtor Combe (Robert Coote) that the house might be haunted, the tenacious young widow calmly establishes residence with her young daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and housekeeper Martha (Edna Best) in tow. Sure enough, the place is haunted by the spirit of its previous owner-a bombastic, profane, yet somehow attractive sea captain named Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison). When Lucy steadfastly refuses to be frightened by Captain Gregg, he takes a liking to her, and the two become close friends (in standard ghost-movie tradition, only Lucy can hear or see the Captain). Realizing that Lucy is in dire financial straits, the Captain offers to dictate his colorful memoirs to her, which she promptly parlays into a best-seller and a lasting literary career. Slowly but surely, Gregg falls in love with Lucy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Gene Tierney - Lucy Muir
Rex Harrison - Ghost of Capt. Daniel Gregg
George Sanders - Miles Fairley
Edna Best - Martha Huggins
Isobel Elsom - Angelica
Vanessa Brown - Anna, as an adult
Helen Freeman - Author
Natalie Wood - Anna, as a child
Robert Coote - Coombe

Part of the Studio Classics series, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment releases the DVD debut of the classic romantic fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and presented with a standard full-frame transfer in the original black-and-white. Dolby Digital Mono soundtracks are available in English, Spanish, and French. A remixed stereo track is offered in English. Subtitles and closed captions are also accessible. An audio commentary track is provided by film historian Greg Kimble and Christopher Husted, manager of the Bernard Herrmann estate. A second commentary track is with film professor Jeanine Bassinger and Mankiewicz biographer Kenneth Geist. The disc also includes a stills gallery, theatrical trailer, and the A&E Biography program Rex Harrison: The Man Who Would Be King. This is a fine disc for an Academy Award-nominated film. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide