Happy ghost stories were all the rage at the time (the TOPPER series, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN), so they decided to take a not-very-successful George Seaton play and transfer it to the screen in the hope that the audience's taste for other-world humor would include this story. It didn't.
It's the early 1900s and Frank Morgan, a 63-year-old New England shipbuilder, is called to his reward by his own father, a thirty-six-year-old wastrel played by Wynn. He'd been dispatched by a whiskey bottle over the head or, as he puts it, "I was launched." Since Morgan's family has lots of
troubles when he passes away, the two men have to stay on to straighten out the problems. Natu...
Released:
1946
Rated:
NR
Length:
81 mins