Always

Sort of a Maguffin opening, highly dramatic, from director Steven Spielberg, in the picture he said was inspired-by, rather than a remake-of A Guy Named Joe, 1944, introducing Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter, John Goodman supporting, in Always, 1989, co-starring Audrey Hepburn.

Firefighter pilot Pete (Richard Dreyfuss) doesn’t realized he’s just crashed his plane and died, but things are explained to him by “Hap” (Audrey Hepburn, her first appearance, having come out of retirement, for what would be her final film), in Steven Spielberg’s Always, 1989.

Full-on sentiment in the opening scene, Carteret (Leslie Howard) in the graveyard visited by ghostly Moonyean (Norma Shearer) and interrupted by domestic Ellen (Margaret Seddon) in MGM's hit 1932 version of Smilin' Through.