A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.
Acting
Margaret Rutherford's Madame Arcati steals every scene.
Direction
Lean makes ghost effects feel effortless and magical.
Writing
Coward's dialogue remains razor-sharp eighty years later.
Director
David Lean
Rex Harrison
Charles Condomine
Constance Cummings
Ruth Condomine
Kay Hammond
Elvira Condomine
Margaret Rutherford
Madame Arcati
Hugh Wakefield
Dr. George Bradman
Joyce Carey
Violet Bradman
Jacqueline Clarke
Edith
Marie Ault
Cook (uncredited)
Johnnie Schofield
R.A.C. Man Directing Traffic (uncredited)
Noël Coward
Narrator (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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