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The Canterville Ghost (VHS, 1991) 
The Canterville Ghost (VHS, 1991)

 
The Canterville Ghost (VHS, 1991)

Leading Role: Charles Laughton
Director: Jules Dassin
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Aug 1991
Format: VHS
Product ID: EPID3168768
Description: In Jule Dassin's adaptation of Oscar Wild's THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, a group of American soldiers waiting to fight in World War II are billeted in Canterville Castle. They are amused when Lady de Canterville, their hostess, instead of bein...
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Movie Description
In Jule Dassin's adaptation of Oscar Wild's THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, a group of American soldiers waiting to fight in World War II are billeted in Canterville Castle. They are amused when Lady de Canterville, their hostess, instead of being the expected dowager, turns out to be seven-year-old Jessica (Margaret O'Brien). They are also amused to discover that the house is haunted. When Jessica's ancestor, Simon de Canterville (Charles Laughton), ran away from a duel, he was walled up in an alcove, his ghost doomed to roam the corridors of the ancestral home. The soldiers refuse to be intimidated by the ghost. Then, one of them, Cuffy Williams (Robert Young), discovers that he too is a de Canterville, and Jessica thinks he might be able to save the family honor.


In 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote his story about the Canterville ghost, telling of an American family who annoy the ghost by refusing to believe in him. In updating the setting of the tale to wartime Britain, screenwriter Edwin Harvey Blum and director Jules Dassin radically rework Wilde's story. The result is an amusing tale, with Margaret O'Brien as the grave young heroine, Young as the charming American struggling with the Canterville curse, and Laughton having a great time as the weary ghost.

Credits
Writer:Edwin Blum
Cast:Mike Mazurki, Peter Lawford, Rags Ragland, Robert Young, Una O'Connor

Notes
Theatrical release in New York City: July 28, 1944.

In the 1940s, Jules Dassin taught at the Actors Lab with, among others, Jeff Corey. Many Hollywood actors who were unsatisfied with their film work went to the Actors Lab. Among those in Dassin's class was Charles Laughton, The Canterville Ghost himself. Later, as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, both Dassin and Corey were blacklisted, and the Actors Lab was forced out of existence.

Although Margaret O'Brien's career stretched into the 1990s, the child star's biggest successes--which included JANE EYRE (1944), MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) and LITTLE WOMEN (1949), as well as THE CANTERVILLE GHOST--all came before she was 13 years old.

Additional cast: William Moss (Hector); Bobby Readlick (Eddie); and Marc Cramer (Bugsy McDougle).

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