The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Release Date:  8/8/1947
Country of Release:  USA
Length:  104 minutes
MPAA:  NR
Medium:  Video
Genre:  COM DRA FAN MYS ROM THR
Release Message:  In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted... and forms a unique relationship with the ghost (Rex Harrison).
Description:  At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna and their long devoted maid Martha. Despite the rental agent trying to dissuade her, Lucy decides to rent Gull Cottage at Whitecliff-by-the-Sea. She learns first hand before she makes the decision the rental agent's hesitance is because the cottage is haunted, supposedly by its now deceased former owner, seaman Captain Daniel Gregg. After she moves in, she does meet the spirit of Captain Gregg face-to-face. Because she refuses to be scared away by his presence, the two come to an understanding, including that he will not make his presence known to Anna. As time progresses, the two develop a friendship and a bond. Despite his statements to her that she needs to live her life including finding another husband, Daniel seems not to approve of any of the men that enter her life, ...