Getting here is half the fun...
Director: Richard Quine
Producer: Julian Blaustein
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
106 min
Rating: 6.5/10
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Top Cast
James Stewart
Shep Henderson
Kim Novak
Gillian Holroyd
Jack Lemmon
Nicky Holroyd
Ernie Kovacs
Sidney Redlitch
Hermione Gingold
Bianca de Passe
Elsa Lanchester
Aunt Queenie Holroyd
Movie Info
Director: Richard Quine
Producer: Julian Blaustein
Production Companies: Julian Blaustein Productions, Columbia Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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What Others Said
John Chard:
Pyewacket Pudding.
It's one of those films that we all have, the movie that features actors you simply adore, but no matter how many times you watch it in the mystical hope that it will change and get better, but it never does. Bell Book & Candle is my pet frustration.
Fronted by James Stewart and Kim Novak, supported by Jack Lemmon & Elsa Lanchester, this screen version of the theatre play has a modicum of charm befitting the story of a publisher who falls under the love spell of a modern day witch, but ultimately it plays out as dull.
It looks nice, both in art direction and colour photography, Jimmy and Kim are pleasant of course, and Elsa, Hermione Gingold and Pyewacket the cat are bundles of fun, yet the belly laughs are missing, a need to care about the lovelorn and the restless sadly some place else.
I have a framed still of Jimmy & Kim from this movie hanging in my hallway, every time I pass it I point my finger at it and swear with sadness in my heart. I love those guys you see, the movie not so much... 5/10