Ghost might be a twenty-five-year-old movie, but it has lost none of its charm. I let myself be dragged into a Big Lots store yesterday to help my partner dig through the DVDs on sale, and I’m glad I did, because I found a copy of Ghost for $5. Watched it last night, and it has lost neither its impact nor its charm. It definitely belongs in any list of the best 10 movies.
Patrick Swayze was thirty-eight when Ghost was filmed, and he was as gorgeous a hunk as ever. Whoopi Goldberg was in rare form, as Oda Mae Brown the psychic adviser who didn’t quite know what to do when she heard a real spirit talk to her. The supporting cast was excellent.
And of course there was the song. What song? You may well ask. Unchained Melody was used in the film. Not the hit tune by Al Hibbler that came out in 1955 and hit #3 on the charts, but a short of jazzed-up version by the Righteous Brothers, which totally annoy anyone who fondly remembers the original Al Hibbler version.
You be the judge.
Al Hibbler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7obNtXLYU
Righteous Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY
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