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Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Ruth, are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost.
Director:
David Lean
Stars:
Rex Harrison,
Constance Cummings,
Kay Hammond
A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Director:
Mick Jackson
Stars:
Steve Martin,
Victoria Tennant,
Richard E. Grant
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming pulp-fiction writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes true when he ... See full summary »
When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches. Written by
John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
In the version of the Christmas sermon dictated to the typewriter by Dudley, the following is shown typed onto the paper: "You give me a tie. I give you a book." However, in the pulpit on Christmas morning the Bishop reverses these two sentences when he reads, "I give you a book. You give me a tie." See more »
Goofs
In several shots throughout the movie, the dog trainer's shadow can be seen. When Dudley pushes Julia's chair in, at Henry's back a shadow moves, and the dog gets up and walks over to Dudley. See more »
A good script and inspired casting is what makes this film a real winner.
Cary Grant as Dudley the Angel has a charm that transcends his role.
When he enters a room his presence fills the screen -- you know he is there even if you cannot always see him.
Loretta Young (who was a last minute replacement) is positively luminescent when she gazes into Dudley's face.
This goes for Elsa Lanchester and Gladys Cooper (the staff at the Bishop's house) too -- they have absolute adoration in their countenance. Not hard to do with Cary Grant I am sure -- but they take it to the spiritual level.
David Niven gives just the right amount of disbelief and cynicism as the Bishop that may have lost his faith.
I have always enjoyed performances by Monty Wooley and again he is perfectly cast as the self-described "has-been scholar."
The special effects are wonderful for a time (1947) when special effects were pretty much in their infancy.
Movie books classify "The Bishop's Wife" as a fantasy -- but there is so much more there than that.
It is a love story, a comedy, a drama and an all around inspiring film.
"Peace on Earth; good will towards men."
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A good script and inspired casting is what makes this film a real winner.
Cary Grant as Dudley the Angel has a charm that transcends his role.
When he enters a room his presence fills the screen -- you know he is there even if you cannot always see him.
Loretta Young (who was a last minute replacement) is positively luminescent when she gazes into Dudley's face.
This goes for Elsa Lanchester and Gladys Cooper (the staff at the Bishop's house) too -- they have absolute adoration in their countenance. Not hard to do with Cary Grant I am sure -- but they take it to the spiritual level.
David Niven gives just the right amount of disbelief and cynicism as the Bishop that may have lost his faith.
I have always enjoyed performances by Monty Wooley and again he is perfectly cast as the self-described "has-been scholar."
The special effects are wonderful for a time (1947) when special effects were pretty much in their infancy.
Movie books classify "The Bishop's Wife" as a fantasy -- but there is so much more there than that.
It is a love story, a comedy, a drama and an all around inspiring film.
"Peace on Earth; good will towards men."