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VHS : Blithe Spirit


 : Blithe Spirit





Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304442593
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304442599
Label: Hallmark
Manufacturer: Hallmark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hallmark
Release Date: June 24, 1997
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Hallmark
Sales Rank: 9510




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Noel Coward's favorite play was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known for adapting Dickens in the '40s. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. --Bill Desowitz



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - "Over the top like a flash and skimming down the other side like a dragonfly!"
Better to get the British version and import it while using a non-regional DVD then sit through the affront to the eyes that the American company is trying to sell us. David Lean's Technicolor is always exquisite, and never more so than in the complicated color designs of BLITHE SPIRIT, in which Charles and Ruth Condomine (Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings) sail through a variety of tweedy outfits that are so brilliantly detailed you can "read" every tooth in the houndstooth. (And Cummings has ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - One wife too many
The story if not the film has held up well over the years. Rex Harrison and Kay Hammond have a fun time rekindling their old love. The only probably is that Charles' dear wife, Elvyra, is dead, and he has to try to convince his new wife, Ruth, that this is a spirit, with a delightfully malevolent quality as it turns out, haunting his life. Unfortunately, the film quality has deteriorated and the technicolor no longer seems so bright. Elvyra is a miserable green, one assumes from envy, to see her ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Where's the "blithe"?
I saw this play done well at the Williamstown Theatre Festival recently. So, I was interested to see how it had been treated on the silver screen. I think 3 of the 4 main characters were done well.

This adaptation fell flat around Kate Hammond's performance as Elvira. She really failed to portray someone you could believe died laughing. The ghastly green makeup didn't help her, either. The director could have convinced us she was a ghost without going the sledgehammer route.

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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Barely passable
This is a fine production of an extremely lightweight play. No wonder that so many high schools used to perform it. This is definitely not a "sex romp," as the puff piece states, and it isn't even slightly suggestive in that regard. It's about quarreling, endless bickering about the existence of an ex-wife, a spirit, in the room. The "one-liners" aren't at all amusing, and the ending is as absurd as its beginning. Three cheers for four of England's finest actors. But there isn't much one can do ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wy is this movie so expensive
I love Margaret Rutherford. I think she is one of the funniest ladies I have ever seen. Everything I have seen her in is wonderful. I just wish I could get other DVDs besides the "Miss Marple" series at a reasonable price.



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  starring: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
directed by: David Lean
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     Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304442593
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304442599
Label: Hallmark
Manufacturer: Hallmark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hallmark
Release Date: June 24, 1997
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Hallmark
Sales Rank: 9510
  
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Cunard Line has announced that its new 85,000-ton cruise ship, which is scheduled to enter service in 2008, will be named Queen Victoria. Based in Southampton, England, the Cunard Queen Victoria will be the second largest Cunard Queen ever built. Together with the current flagship, Queen Elizabeth 2, and Queen Mary 2, the biggest passenger liner ever, the Cunard fleet will include three Queens for the first time – truly the most famous ocean liners in the world.   Cheaper Web Site

Cruise Queen Victoria will enter service in the company’s 165th anniversary and will operate cruises to and from Southampton to the Mediterranean, the Canaries, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, and South America. The 1,968-passenger vessel will feature a covered wraparound promenade deck, a forward-facing observation lounge, a large Lido pool with a retractable magrodome, and 10 of the12 passenger decks will be served by exterior glass-walled lifts. Like QE2 and QM2, the liner will have a Queens Grill, offering single-seating gourmet dining. There will also be a unique Colonial Restaurant on Deck 11 with spectacular panoramic views.

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The on-board menus, entertainment and lecture program will be geared to British tastes and the currency will be sterling. Queen Victoria will fly the red ensign; she will have the name of her home port, Southampton, on her stern, and she will have a British Captain and Officers.   In design terms the cruise Cunard Queen Victoria will have an undeniably British feel with two British design teams being responsible for the interior of the Cunard Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria is being built at Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera, near Venice, with her keel laid on July 12, 2003. One of the most technically advanced shipbuilders in the world, Fincantieri has built more than 7,000 vessels, including many for Cunard’s parent Carnival Corporation. Originally ordered as the fifth in a series of five 'Vista' class ships for sister company Holland America, the contact was signed over to Cunard before the keel was laid and Holland America then ordered a further ship for delivery  in 2006.   Enjoy a Cruise on Queen Victoria.  The lead ship in the series, Zuiderdam, entered service in December 2002.

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