The Spirit Is Willing
The Spirit Is Willing
NR | 07 July 1967 (USA)
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When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.

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Joanna Mccarty

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Janae Milner

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Beulah Bram

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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jbar19

I really wanted to like this movie. After all, it is a Whos-Who of great comedians (Sid Caesar, Mary Wickes, John Astin, Jesse White and William Castle). But not even these giants can rescue this go-nowhere story.There are no real jokes, it's all a matter of "OH-You-just-missed-seeing-the-ghost" jokes. Vic Mizzy created a great score and the Jill Townsend is a cutie. Plus, there are a few surprising sexual developments that seem risqué for the time period. But that is it.It seems more like an average episode of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" without the cute dog.Sad. I really looked forward to this one. I even watched it several times to give it a chance. I gave it a 5/10 ONLY because of the great cast.

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miniflik

I noticed a lot of people wishing there was a way to purchase a copy of this movie. I found a site online that sells rare and classic movies and stuff like that...and they carry this one. Plus, the DVD is only like $12.Go to - http://store.thesmallscreen.org/spiswi19dvd.html.Plug that URL into your browser and see for yourself.I saw the movie when I was really really little and had just written it off as my imagination until I found it here. It combines two things little kids are understandably intrigued by: ghosts and sex. It's comforting to know that I was not simply too imaginative as a child, that the things I swear I remember weren't just fantasies! IMDb validated me just a little.I wish I was alive in the sixties. Because according to these people, the greatest problem of THEIR time was "the sex lives of ghosts," not crime and poverty. Nice.

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HumanoidOfFlesh

"The Spirit Is Willing" is very funny.This is a late 60's William Castle ghost comedy which has Sid Caesar in a cast.Of course the film isn't as good as earlier Castle's horror films like "House on Haunted Hill","Macabre" or "Thirteen Ghosts",but the level of humour is really high,so everyone who enjoy good horror/comedies won't be disappointed.7 out of 10-still if you want something truly creepy check out "Macabre" or "Homicidal" first!

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shangrila

"The Spirit is Willing" for me is one of those nostalgic movies from the 60's..It used to turn up on tv every once in a while but now it's been way too many years since I have seen it.. I cannot fathom why it has not been released on video yet...What about a William Castle Marathon, AMC or TCM?????

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