Perhaps it's because I'm an atheist, but I found the storyline difficult to swallow. Stories with similar ghostly apparitions usually follow a plausible logic, but for this film that seems to have gone out the window. I can understand why it was used, I can only guess that the character they picked for the ghost was chosen so the film wouldn't appear to have copied other films too closely, but whatever the reasoning,while it might have worked as a pivotal plot device in a discussion, for my money it just detracts from what otherwise would have been a competent and nicely acted look at life, loss and recovery in war-time. Don Ameche in particular gives a wonderful performance, but there is no getting away from that mis-placed ghost.
Review of Happy Land
