Noel Coward's favourite play, Blithe Spirit, was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known at the time for adapting Dickens. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. --Bill Desowitz
The Foreman Went To France / Fiddlers Three
During World War Two Britain's survival depended upon her Atlantic convoys. Stalking the convoys were 'Wulf Packs' of German U-boats engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the convoy escorts and exacting a devastating toll on the defenceless merchantmen. The outcome of the entire war hung in the balance...
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