Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

mark.waltz Sentenced to a horrific death by his evil father for cowardess, Canterville her Charles Laughton must find a brave descendent to be released from a family curse. 300 years go by with no luck, and with his abandoned castle now inhabited by American soldiers. the bored ghost does what the idol dead do: pass the time by trying to scare the living. It's no shock to the audience that ironically one of those Americans (Robert Young) has the family birth mark, and with the help of distant Canterville relative (Margaret O'Brien), Young fulfills his destiny, faces his own cowardess and aides Laughton in escaping from the curse which keeps ghosts earthbound eternally.A true crowd pleaser, mixing in comedy, slight horror and war propaganda, this features three great performances, two of which are by notorious scene stealers and hams. Laughton is showy but filled with touching philosophy, longing for eternal rest after 300 years of a living non death, and O'Brien only goes off on a screeching tangent once but out of necessity. Young proves himself as always to be the completely likable all American hero. Joining them are Rags Ragland as Young's best pal, Una O'Connor as the hysterical and superstitious maid, and Elisabeth Risdon as Obrien's kindly aunt. There's a great jitterbug scene (referred to as woogie boogie by two British locales), a funny attempted haunting sequence by Laughton (where he gets scared himself) and an encounter with a missile at the end which is both tense and funny. An absolute winner overall in my book!

utgard14 The ghost of cowardly Sir Simon de Canterville (Charles Laughton) is cursed to haunt an English castle until one of his descendants performs an act of bravery. It's World War II and his current descendant, six year-old Jessica (Margaret O'Brien) has opened the castle up to American soldiers. One of those soldiers (Robert Young) turns out to be a long-lost descendant of de Canterville. Now all he has to do is perform an act of bravery and the ghost will be freed.Nice family-friendly movie with MGM gloss and quality production. Laughton has a great time and it shows. O'Brien is charming and precocious. Young is solid and likable. A fun movie that should please all but the most miserable among us.

Movie_Palace Is this a faithful adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic? Don't know, never read it. This is though, a silly and entertaining movie that can be enjoyed by the whole family.This was my first introduction to Margaret O'Brien and she won me over with her sweet charm. As a platoon of U.S. soldiers hold up in the haunted Canterville castle, they are excited by the news that they are to be welcomed by Lady Jessica de Canterville herself. The boys are surprised when Lady Jessica happens to be a 3-1/2' tall 6-year-old. She plays hostess to the GI's and tells them of the residing ghost. Their disbelief is soon tested by the late night antics of Sir Simon (Charles Laughton), who has inhabited the castle in his ghostly form for over 300 years. He has been condemned to this state of purgatory for his cowardice which can only be relieved by a blood descendant performing an act of bravery in his stead.Having seen Charles Laughton in 'The Private Life of Henry VIII', 'Mutiny on the Bounty' and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', I was surprised to see him in this role as a clumsy, silly ghost. As usual, he is wonderful. A master thespian who can handle comedy as well as drama.I highly recommend this film to anyone young or old who just wants an hour and a half of amusement.

kill-the-boxtrolls I don't know what rating to rate my movie for 9.5 or 10.0 it was a just too great of a fantasy movie for me to rate such a low rating. Margaret O'Brien was charming, adorable, and a nice little treat to watch even though she is not in the movie all the time, but still, she was nice with the crying and the acting that I'll will just wait a ten for. She was great in Meet me in St. Louis and she was great in this one. I would really desire for this movie to be released on DVD in Amazon or something because 3-4 weeks ago, I have just finished this movie on VHS tape and I thought it was a really good movie to recommend to old movie fans. I would have to say Margaret O'Brien is probably great in all her movies although I haven't seen all of them yet, but I am looking forward to checking all of her child stars movies out before checking her when she was older like The secret garden-older. Margaret O'Brien has just been great acting like every time she cried, I started tearing up and started sobbing a little like MMISL she was really great playing "Tootie" and her little cry at the end. Margaret O'Brien is just a great character to adore as much as little Bailee Madison or Judith Barsi. They were really close to tearing up the audience near Margaret O'Brien but if Judith Barsi was still here, I would be very happy about that that she will be great as an Adult and teenanger.