Right. And the movie was The Gift. More details here, READ NO FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE MOVIE:

in the version of The Suffolk Miracle that I had on my ghost ballads LP, a dead man "walks" (or, rather, rides) to fetch his ladylove from where her parents secreted her to get her away from him (he has died of a broken heart a year and a day before this part of the song). She doesn't know he's dead, and as they're riding back to her father's house, he complains of a headache. She gives him her hankie and kisses him (which raises the big deal about how in ALL OTHER GHOST BALLADS the corpse refuses to be kissed because it will kill the survivor, so I assume that a few verses after the end of this ballad, the woman dies).
After getting her home, he disappears, and her family is horrified that she thinks this dead guy brought her (THEY knew he was dead, they just hadn't told her), so "They sent for clerks and clergy too / To open the grave and the corpse to view / And though he had been 12 months dead / The handkerchief was 'round his head."

Flash forward to the movie, The Gift. The main character is clairvoyant, of the kind that can be "explained" by really really good intuition. At one point someone is beating her with a flashlight, and a friend of hers comes and beats the guy off her, this friend having been incarcerated earlier in the movie for setting his abusing father on fire. Earlier in the movie, she had given her hankie to this friend, and now he hands it back to her to clean the blood off her head, saying "I washed it." - Well, the instant he handed her the hankie, I KNEW, I just KNEW, that he wasn't really there. And indeed, he vanishes at the police station (after seeing her to safety, just like the song), and she thinks he escaped from the hospital, but it turns out he'd already killed himself. At that point she looks in her bag, and the handkerchief was still there... so I'm sure the writers knew the song. I mean, if not, they would have come up with something other than a handkerchief, no? Or is this a "coincidence" (theme from The Twilight Zone playing eerily)?