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6.8/10   38 votes
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Director:
Robin Miller
Writers:
Oscar Wilde (story) and
Robin Miller (writer)
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Release Date:
10 March 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
User Comments:
I always believed this was Vincent Price, but it was my favorite David Niven!!! more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
60 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
HTV West more

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Version of The Canterville Ghost (1985) (TV) more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
I always believed this was Vincent Price, but it was my favorite David Niven!!!, 5 October 2002
Author: richard.fuller1

I remember this thing coming on back when I was in the third grade. It was a stagey setting, like a soap opera. I thought it was Vincent Price who played the ghost. I guess I was thinking of Price on the Brady Bunch Hawaii episodes.

This was hilarious, with the ghost trying to scare the family and the young boys putting a bucket of water over the door and it dumps on the hapless ghost.

The ghost kept putting the blood spot back and the new lady of the house kept cleaning it up where the ghost had died, and finally he puts an emerald green spot on the floor.

In the end, the teen aged daughter finds the ghost sitting in a room, alone, very tired. He asks for her help to enable him to have eternal rest. She agrees. When we see her next, standing atop the stairs, looking shellshocked and ragged, she merely states to her startled family "I have been with the Canterville ghost". Apparently she had to go to the devil and back to help the ghost out. In her hands is her reward for assisting him; a box of precious, rich jewels and emeralds and diamonds.

David Niven was the ghost and always superb. I am surprised to see Audra Lindley, Maurice Evans and James Whitmore were in this, as I recall none of their faces. This was a wonderful program I would love to see again.

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