Charming frippery. No-one's quite at their best here, not Tierney, Harrison, Sanders or Mankiewicz but it has a lightness of touch that is very engaging and if we must have movies about people falling in love with ghosts and vice versa this is as good an example as we're likely to get. Tierney is the widow who moves to a seaside cottage with young daughter Natalie Wood but it's a cottage that's haunted by the ghost of Rex Harrison's gruff sea-captain. What follows may be predictable but it's nice to see Tierney in something light for a change. With a lesser director than Mankiewicz it might have fallen apart but he keeps it on course. No classic but perhaps unfairly overlooked.
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