I hope I'm not coming off as creepy or anything haha. But I'm just curious. I'm 17 and I've been watching this movie over and over throughout my life. My mom introduced it to me when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It's remained one of my all time favorites. I think I've seen this movie more times than any other.
"It was so frustrating not to be able to touch them."-Why my mom cried when she saw the Beatles
I'm 50 -- female -- and saw the movie for the first time after watching the tv show for the two years it was on -- at age 11. I hope I am not stirring up anything when i say I love them both, not to mention the book, and I like pulling out the original movie script to read once in a while!
shareI just turned 48. I first saw this film when I was about 15. I fell in love with it (and Rex Harrison)immediately. Those were the days when you could only see an old movie when you were lucky enough to catch it on t.v. so any time it came on I would make sure I saw it. I even used to go to school dead tired if it was on the late show.
I'm so glad for modern DVD's that now allow me to engage the ghost any time I have the inkling.
Male.....75. Saw it yesterday om the Fox Channel
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I'm a 62-year-old male. The film and TV show are both excellent (and are rated about equally on imdb.com). I thought the casting in both was excellent. And I'm not ashamed to say I always get choked up in the movie's final scene.
shareAfter a ten year wait, I finally found a near perfect set of DVD's from the TV show --- recorded from Nick at night in Australia. Also have both the Black and white and rare colorized version of the movie that someone gave me that I haven't watched all the way through -- and a hardback and paperback copy of the book and movie soundtrack recording.
Though I love the book, TV show and movie, this is one movie I don't think should be re-done. I just don't think they can recapture the magic!
I agree about not remaking it. Whenever Hollywood runs out of ideas, they try to do a remake of a classic, and 99% of the time it's inferior to the original. They should just leave well enough alone.
I wouldn't mind seeing the TV series again, but I doubt it will come around again in syndication in the U.S.
I am a 47 year old man. Like others, I first saw the TV show before seeing the movie. Anybody remember the show Dark Shadows? Anyway I was about 8 and then I read the book. We didn't have movie channels back then so it was in the early 80's when I saw the movie and it is one of my favorites. I think the most moving and powerful scene is when the Captain is telling her that it was all a dream and as he stands by the windows and describes the places he would have liked her to have seen with him, there is such power in his voice, then he softly says “What we’ve missed Lucia...” Rex Harrison at his best.
shareI'm 61 and have watched it many times over the years, predominantely after I could tape. We have a group of three who watch it whenever we're together...we have now all moved to different locations but the ritual goes on - stronger than ever.
"Adapt and Overcome"..VM
50 next year, and just watched it on YouTube again (god bless YouTube). I taped it off AMC years ago, when AMC didn't have commercials yet, and before DVDs existed. In reference to what someone posted on another thread, compared to Rex's work in Doctor Doolittle and My Fair Lady, here he's portraying a MAN'S man, and no woman worth her salt could resist him.
shareI'm 19 and I'm a huge fan of classic movies, so this one stood out immediately.
I love that quote about your mother. I feel that way about Michael Buble...
"Dragonfly out in the sun, you know what I mean..."
-Amanda
54 and love this movie since I was small. This and Wuthering Heights (1939) are classic love stories. Present day is "The Notebook", these are 3 real tear jerkers.
share38 year old guy. Love this movie and need to watch it again soon. First saw it and loved it when I was about 16.
share52 yr old female and this is one of my favorites. Don't care much for 'romantic' films, but I've loved this one since my teens. It's well-directed, well-acted and the chemistry between the leads is wonderful. Gene Tierney was very adept at being classy as well as brash when needed.
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Hello, 17-year-old winkwinknudgenudge (let me guess: are you a Monty Python fan?); I'm 52 years old, and strangely enough I didn't get around to seeing this classic film until today, on British TV - see IMBD Comments for my remarks. Like all film fans, I have gaps in my repertoire: I never saw Citizen Kane before I was 30, Wizard of Oz before I was 35, Gun Crazy before I was 40, and Out of the Past before last week. But congratulations to your mum on letting you watch this film at an impressionable age. It's good to know that someone of your age (heck, I was 17 myself just the day before yesterday, or at least how it feels) appreciates films of the golden age. Kind regards, Kenneth
shareI'm 53 and strangely enough I didn't get around to seeing this classic film till about 2 years ago, even though I'm a big fan of both Gene Tierney fan and Bernard Herrmann.
I love your username, by the way; am also a big fan of Ealing comedies.
i'm 38 and saw it for the first time with my Mom when i was home from school, sick. i couldn't have been more than 7 or 8. by then i'd seen reruns of the tv show, too, and really liked it. but the haunting, romantic atmosphere of the movie has stuck with me all my life.
i have 4 daughters, 9-18, who all also love the movie. do any other parents have children who love old movies, too? especially when mine are stuck at home sick they'll ask me to drag out the VHS tapes of Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Penny Serenade, Shirley Temple and the like. Again and again. And it's funny how everyone will stop whatever they're doing and cuddle up on the couch to watch together if they walk in the room and one of the classics are on.
I have a theory, completely without scientific merit lol that my kids find the old movies soothing and relaxing because of the slower way of letting a story unfold, from the language to the way they were directed... and without the distraction of 2.5 sec camera shots and FX and shocking language being thrown at them constantly.
i dunno ... just got me thinking :)
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I'm 19, and I just saw the movie for the first time. I completely agree about the atmosphere of the movie. Its one of the things that I love about a lot of older films.
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