Blithe Spirit

…was Coward’s classic supernatural comedy Blithe Spirit (1945), regarded as a good effort but little more than a stage play on celluloid. The last of the Coward vehicles, the romantic melodrama Brief Encounter (1945; based on Coward’s play Still Life), was a masterpiece and the first of many Lean films…

… (1939) and Blithe Spirit (1941; film 1945; musical version, High Spirits, 1964) are usually listed among his better comedies.