Hello, I saw this movie on TV in the U.S. back in the very early 90’s (1993 at the latest). It was in color. I very specifically remember that there was a blood stain (visible or not) on fancy oriental-type rug and the spirit of the dead person either rose up on its own, or was extracted with a machine… I also remember that this spirit was from a hundred or so years in the past and naturally comes back after it is lifted.
Thanks for any guesses!!!
Can you describe the spirit at all? Is the carpet important to the story?
It is three years after you say you could have seen it, but it sounds like the 1996 version of THE CANTERVILLE GHOST.
Maybe it’s the 1986 version of The Canterville Ghost?
The place You might be thinking of comes in at 58:00 in the above video (sorry, I meant to pre-set it to play from there)
It is hard to imagine that it is not the movie Robin and will have identified — harder still to believe that this movie got made and remade so many times. Though I have watched 15 minutes of it with interest from the link. There is, in the end, nothing like a good ghost redemption story especially when it has Gielgud as the ghost — he’s always bringing it. And it is, I have just learned, an Oscar Wilde story so this story has good genes.
Wow. I have been thinking about this movie on and off for 20 years! Thank you!! Great job, Will and Robin!! I’m probably going to have to sit down and watch it again… Good to know that my memory was pretty on point!
Thanks again!!
Do you think it was the 1986 or the 1996 version you saw?
Admin, I think you should just give the solve to Will either way. I knew about the 1986 version, but hadn’t thought of The Canterville Ghost until Will mentioned it. In this case, I think Will deserves it, even if it is the 1986 version.
That’s very noble of you, and if Will registers for the site I will do so.
OP confirmed it by looking at the 1988 version so give it to Robin.
OK, I will do. Plus I can’t give you official credit anyway!
It was definitely the 1986 version… I want to give props to both Will and Robin because it’s basically the same story. And props to Oscar Wilde as well.