See these films: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir + Dragonwyck @ the HFA
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Ghosts were once less disagreeable on the big
screen than they are today. Compare the specter in, say, Paranormal
Activity,
with the spook in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The
Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947; 7 pm). He's the sexy, pipe-smoking,
bearded sea captain (Rex Harrison), who proves erotically titillating to the
widow (Gene Tierney), when she moves into the quaint cottage he haunts. This
bittersweet charmer is screening at the Harvard Film Archive with Mankiewicz's
debut feature, the rarely screened Dragonwyck (1946; 9:15
pm), which also stars Tierney, in this case as a farm girl wooed by a land
baron played by Vincent Price, who would probably have made a creepier ghost
than Rex Harrison. It screens on Friday, August 19 in the Carpenter Center,
24 Quincy St, Cambridge | $9; $7 students, seniors | 617.495.4700
or hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.