Joseph L. Mankiewicz holds a well deserved reputation for creating films with strong female characters, and the ladies will love this charming romantic wallow that he made during his journeyman days at Fox set in Cornwall at the turn of the century.
Like many a young woman who had recently lost her spouse in the war Gene Tierney was looking for romance, which when it comes is in the spectral form of a bearded Harrison fresh from ‘Blithe Spirit’; complete with an appropriately spectral ambience created by glacial photography by Charles Lang and a characteristically haunting score by Bernard Herrmann. @RichardChatten
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