The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square as the most haunted house in London. Despite its stellar cast of highly respected character actors and its inventive use of special effects, the film proved less successful at the boxoffice than had been hoped.
Things get off to a rocky start when the ghosts of Burlap and Kelsoe blame each other for the fiasco, quarrel, and refuse to speak to each other for 66 years. Once they have resolved their differences, they set about trying to engineer the required Royal Visit. Over the decades they interact with the succession of different occupants of the house, but never manage to lure a monarch to enter. As the years pass, the house becomes variously the home of a Frenchrun bordello with drinking, gambling and fornication an Indian rajah complete with harem the home of the PT Barnum theatre a Boer War soldiers hospital and a World War I officers club. Their time as earthbound ghosts eventually comes to an end when Berkeley Square is bombed during an air raid and Queen Mary comes to visit the damaged properties, allowing the pair finally to take their place in the afterlife.
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