An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.
Rex Harrison
as Charles Condomine
Constance Cummings
as Ruth Condomine
Kay Hammond
as Elvira Condomine
Margaret Rutherford
as Madame Arcati
Hugh Wakefield
as Dr. George Bradman
Joyce Carey
as Violet Bradman
Jacqueline Clarke
as Edith
Marie Ault
as Cook (uncredited)
Johnnie Schofield
as R.A.C. Man Directing Traffic (uncredited)
Noël Coward
as Narrator (uncredited)
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You can't really go wrong with David Lean adapting Noël Coward in a film about poor old Rex Harrison ("Charles") and three on-form women: two of whom he married - Constance Cummings ("Ruth)" and Kay Hammond ("Elvira") and the other is the source of most of his woes - spiritual medium Margaret Ruther...