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Ghost and Mrs. Muir [Soundtrack]

~ Bernard Herrmann
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  • Audio CD (20 Oct 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Varese Sarabande
  • ASIN: B0000263D9
  • Other Editions: VHS Tape  |  DVD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 192,986 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Bernard Herrmann is best known for scoring dark thrillers for Alfred Hitchcock and colourful mythological fantasies for Ray Harryhausen. The Ghost And Mrs Muir (1947) is a fantasy of a different kind, a literally haunting love story and a Hollywood classic. Gene Tierney is the widow who discovers her suitor, George Sanders is married, and finds solace with the ghost of the sea captain, Rex Harrison, in whose cottage she lives. This is lyrical, reflective music: soft woodwinds and falling strings painting the shadows of time, a harp evoking mortality with the play of the tides. Yet there are humorous, playful moments, interludes that contrast with the melancholy atmosphere of love lost, and of the timeless ebb and flow of the sea. Nostalgic warmth appears in a sea shanty melody for the captain, a tragic-romantic storm breaks in "The Passing Years", while the final heart-wrenching pieces--"Sorrow", "Andante Cantabile", "The Late Sea", "Forever"--conclude a masterpiece of film music. One of Herrmann's very finest scores, this definitive 1947 mono soundtrack is remarkably well preserved. --Gary S. Dalkin

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A ghostly love story, 7 Oct 2000
By Lynette Baines (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ghost And Mrs Muir [VHS] [1947] (VHS Tape)
I love movies about impossible love, and this is one of my favourites. Lucy Muir, a young widow with a daughter, moves into Gull Cottage by the sea, and encounters the ghost of the former owner, Captain Gregg. He tries to frighten her into leaving, but she stays, and they fall in love. The beautiful soundtrack is full of the sounds of the sea, the seagulls and the melancholy of a love story which can't be resolved. Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney are perfect in their roles, and the supporting cast are wonderful, particularly Edna Best as Martha.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Romantic Comedies Don't Come Better Than This., 5 Jun 2005
By D. P. Cunningham "Darryl Cunningham" (Yorkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ghost And Mrs Muir [DVD] [1947] (DVD)
Edwardian widow, Gene Tierney, flees her overbearing in-laws to buy a small cottage by the sea. With small daughter and maid in tow, the formidable Mrs Muir sets up home in this idyllic setting. However, the house is haunted by the ghost of a sea captain, who doesn't much care for women invading, what he still sees, as his home.

At first, the uncouth captain (played with bearded handsomeness by Rex Harrison) tries to scare off the beautiful widow, but to no avail. She is tough and unmoving. A bickering friendship then begins to develop between the prim lady and the worldly-wise sailor. She agrees to write the captain's memoirs for him (a great success). Gradually unspoken feelings begin to deepen between the two, despite the obvious impossibility of their relationship.

Eventually Mrs. Muir meets a charming writer who manages to seduce her. You know this guy is no good, because he's played by George Sanders (the arch cad of many Hollywood films).

What I love about this film is that it starts off as a light comedy, but as the film progresses, the mood darkens, and then darkens again. The years roll by, while Bernard Herrman's romantic and doom-laiden music, crashes like waves on a beach.

The ending is tragic, uplifting and very, very moving.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A quiet, quite charming romantic comedy, 2 Aug 2004
By Miguel M. Santos "miguelmsantos" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ghost And Mrs Muir [DVD] [1947] (DVD)
A quiet, quite charming romantic comedy from director Joseph L Mankiewicz, who later directed "All About Eve". A widow (Gene Tierney) decides to leave her husband's family and move to the sea side. There she moves to a house where a captain (Rex Harrison) had live and die and she falls in love with his ghost. Although not much happens in the film, you still can't help falling in love with it. Gene Tierney is lovely, Rex Harrison is close to top form, George Sanders is at his slimy best and look for a very young Natalie Wood as Gene Tierney's daughter. The DVD looks very good and sounds quite good as well, doing justice to one of Bernard Herrmann's best and most famous scores. Let yourself fall in love with it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars turn of the century classic style
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5.0 out of 5 stars Like the Fading of the Stars
There are soundtracks and there are orchestrations. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" is neither. Some movies reach the haunting by cinematography, others by acting. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars An unvarnished love story
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