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I Married a Witch **** (1942, Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 7189

Director René Clair sprinkles magic dust on this enchanting 1942 whimsical comedy about a 260-year-old witch (Veronica Lake) and her much, much older wizard dad (Cecil Kellaway) who materialise in the present to scare the […]

Jun, 18

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini ** (1965, Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Frankie Avalon, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, Beverly Adams, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 6218

American International Pictures’ sixth Beach Party movie is the last one to feature Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello (returning as Dee Dee), though Avalon appears for only six minutes as he was shooting another AIP film, Sergeant Deadhead (1965). […]

Nov, 09

Bedknobs and Broomsticks **** (1971, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roy Snart, Cindy O’Callaghan, Sam Jaffe, Roddy McDowall, Bruce Forsyth, Reginald Owen, Tessie O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 5936

Angela Lansbury stars as a cuddly amateur witch called Eglantine Price, who takes three World War Two evacuated kids on a magic bedstead and battles the Nazis in director Robert Stevenson’s delightful 1971 Disney fantasy […]

Aug, 19

The Witches **** (1990, Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 5869

‘As far as children are concerned, a witch is easily the most dangerous of all the living creatures on Earth.’ It is perhaps quite surprising to find Nicolas Roeg directing the 1990 film The Witches […]

Aug, 07

Witchcraft *** (1964, Lon Chaney Jr, Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, David Weston, Viola Keats, Marie Ney) – Classic Movie Review 5866

Director Don Sharp’s 1964 British horror B-movie is a lurid and vigorously handled affair. Harry Spaulding’s screenplay is all about a modern-day housing contractor developing a graveyard where a witch was buried 300 years ago, […]

Aug, 06

Boom! *** (1968, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 5842

The making of Boom! is a comedy horror story of posh, intelligent people letting their hair down in public. With all the excesses and extravagancies of the Sixties, maybe it is meant to be funny, […]

Aug, 02

Bell, Book and Candle **** (1958, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 5091

Director Richard Quine’s super-tasty 1958 comedy is lightweight but delicious Fifties fantasy fun, based on the play John Van Druten, with an expert screenplay by Daniel Taradash. With Technicolor cinematography by James Wong Howe and sets […]

Mar, 01

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