[ April 24, 2024 ]
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection is the classic British supernatural-comedy film, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square, starring the great raconteur Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer.
Firmly in the fantasy groove previously plowed by such films as The Canterville Ghost and The Time of Their Lives is the 1947 British comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square. Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer play a pair of fatuous Colonel Blimp military types, whose efforts to shorten the war results only in getting the both of them killed. Summoned to a Heavenly court, Morley and Aylmer incur the wrath of Queen Anne. She orders them to haunt a mansion until they can prove themselves worthy of entering the Pearly Gates..
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This amiable adaptation of SJ Simon and CarylBrahms’s novel No Nightingales will delight film buffs and casual viewers alike. Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer are wonderfully mischievous as the bungling 18th-century assassins who are cursed to haunt a luxurious town house until it is visited by a reigning monarch. Highlights include Ernest Thesiger’s attempt to prove they’re a hoax and the ghosts being mistaken for First World War spies. This is not only a great opportunity to watch an accomplished cast of British character actors go through its paces, but also a spirited flight of fancy that takes several sly swipes at the British cinema of the period.
Summary
Two bungling 18th-century assassins are condemned for their crimes to haunt a sprawling London mansion until a reigning monarch pays a visit. Meanwhile, other guests are convinced the ghosts are First World War spies. British supernatural comedy, starring Robert Morley, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Wilfrid Hyde White, Ernest Thesiger, James Hayter and Yvonne Arnaud.
Cast & Crew
General Burlap Robert MorleyColonel Kelsoe Felix AylmerMillie Yvonne ArnaudKing’s equerry Robert BeaumontMatron Madge Brindley
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2 Comments
7 years ago
Loved the film.
7 years ago
I remember when the only thing we had to fear about hollywood was how far they would go to suggest that anyone could blindly run off a rooftop until the end of the movie and you went home. Then we woke up to 9-11 and the reality that the islamist monster would throw anyone -even hollywood folks – off the rooftop – no matter how progressive.
