The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR is a romantic comedy with a supernatural twist. The statuesque Gene Tierney moves into a seaside comedy only to discover that it's already occupied in the form of Rex Harrison's gruff but friendly ghost who has designs on her. Said ghost proceeds to interfere in Mrs. Muir's life in various ways while she seeks to get the upper hand and also falls in love with an Englishman, as played by George Sanders. This well-shot effort is slight but fine-looking, part of a way of similarly light and breezy supernatural films that came out in the late 1940s after the dark and devastating war days.

I remember seeing the TV show when I was a kid, but the film is very good. The chemistry between the Captain Gregg and Mrs Muir is really good and makes me often laugh. To be a film from 1947 is surprising progressive for what concerns Mrs Muir character quest for independence; it is also progressive for the attitude to marriage (not necessarily happy) and having children (surprisingly Mrs Muir says having children is not an accomplishment (Anna happened) and Marta the maid agrees saying that is what her mother used to say too after 11 children. It's a bit disappointing that they meet again only when she dies of old age. I found all those years of solitude quite sad and I would have liked to see more of them together.Blast! Blast! Blast! :)

What's not to like in this film that covers so many categories and comes on top of all of them? The story, of course, is hyper-romantic but it's held in order by an under-stated treatment it so much needs. The music by Bernard Hermann is absolutely perfect in every way, unapologetically romantic and dreamy at the same time and never, never over-stated or saccharine. The leads are perfectly cast and feed off each other beautifully as if they were inventing the script as the events happened, which leads me to the point in particular that surprised me the most: so many writer-directors make films that are labored with verbose scripts which lack anything else but words on paper. Mankiewicz is guilty of this on a number of occasions in other films he's directed but here he is ideal and even memorable in his role as virtuoso director. This is a film to treasure.Curtis Stotlar

Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed this classic romantic ghost story that stars Gene Tierney as Lucy Muir, a recently widowed woman who moves in(along with her daughter, played by Natalie Wood) with her in-laws, but feels oppressed living under the same roof, so buys a seaside cottage overlooking the English coast that turns out to be haunted by the ghost of Captain Gregg(played by Rex Harrison) the original owner, who is quite disagreeable, yet he and Lucy come to an understanding, and he even agrees to let her "ghost write" his autobiography, which turns out to be a success. Lucy and the Captain then form a long and lasting love that lasts until she is quite old... Wonderful film, much like "The Uninvited" in how it creates a distinct atmosphere that takes you to another time and place. Superbly acted, directed, and written, with a moving ending that may have later inspired "Somewhere In Time" & "Titanic"! Not to be missed.