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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 344015" data-attributes="member: 57984">All that&#039;s clever, but I&#039;m not sure it all rings true. The acting is of the period, which not everybody likes. Landau played a &quot;psychic investigator&quot; so we&#039;re supposed to assume his diagnosis about who the ghost is is &quot;informed&quot;. The girl on the beach was inserted to stretch out the running time to help it reach feature length (and therefore has no connection to other plots). Your criticisms of Judith Anderson are interesting, and kind of nutsIt was supposed to be a pilot for a TV series but the network found it &quot;too scary&quot; for the small screen in 1965. Originally, the ghost doesn&#039;t switch from the school teacher to the mother after the mother dies --- they added that to extend the length, too.Yes, there&#039;s lots of wind and hysterical, neurotic bitches. Isn&#039;t that what we really want? And you say &quot;long-winded and trashy&quot; like that&#039;s bad!I found it competent enough by TV standards then. But for me, though, it&#039;s all about the atmosphere.<img src="https://aws1.vdkimg.com/film/1/3/8/0/1380865_backdrop_scale_1280xauto.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 851px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 344015, member: 57984"] All that's clever, but I'm not sure it all rings true. The acting is of the period, which not everybody likes. Landau played a "psychic investigator" so we're supposed to assume his diagnosis about who the ghost is is "informed". The girl on the beach was inserted to stretch out the running time to help it reach feature length (and therefore has no connection to other plots). Your criticisms of Judith Anderson are interesting, and kind of nuts It was supposed to be a pilot for a TV series but the network found it "too scary" for the small screen in 1965. Originally, the ghost doesn't switch from the school teacher to the mother after the mother dies --- they added that to extend the length, too. Yes, there's lots of wind and hysterical, neurotic bitches. Isn't that what we really want? And you say "long-winded and trashy" like that's bad! I found it competent enough by TV standards then. But for me, though, it's all about the atmosphere. [IMG width="851px"]https://aws1.vdkimg.com/film/1/3/8/0/1380865_backdrop_scale_1280xauto.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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