Movie

Thursday night I watched an old movie on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) until about 12 am. Bad choice because after it I watched another one until 2 a.m. and when it was over I couldn't fall a sleep for over an hour. But actually they were both worth it, the first movie was really great.

It was The Ghost and Mrs. Muir from 1947 with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison . This was a love story that spanned almost a lifetime.

For those who don't know the story this is a synopsis.

Mrs. Muir is a young widow who moves into a beachside house that is haunted by a previous owner, a sea captain. The ghost is only visible to her and they develop a good relationship that results in her falling in love with him, and slowly he is falling in love with her.

However, realizing that their relationship is not viable the ghost disappears from the house never to appear again.

After a disappointing love affair with another man she withdraws into her home and lives the rest of her life alone, hopelessly waiting for the sea captain to reappear.

At the end of the movie she is aged, gray and tired. She sits in a large chair drinking her warm milk when her heart stops. In that instant the sea captain reappears reaches out his hand towards her and the soul of the young, beautiful woman she was then rises from the chair and the lovers walk away arm in arm finally together.

This last scene was so moving that I got really teary eyed watching it. Why something like this happens only in the movies?