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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301706490 Format: Black & White, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6301706498 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 27, 1993 Running Time: 77 minutes Sales Rank: 7569 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 1942
Amazon.com: This fun and stylish Rene Clair comedy gave two big Hollywood names--Fredric March and Veronica Lake--a chance to break away from their stereotypically serious roles (as intense leading man and film noir vamp, respectively) and exercise their funny bones. The sultry Lake stars as a Salem witch burned at the stake who returns to haunt the descendants of the Puritans who let her smolder, namely aspiring politician March. Lake concocts a love potion for her victim that will get him to fall in love with her, rather than his snooty fiancée (Susan Hayward in one of her early roles). Things get a wee bit complicated when said potion works its spell on Lake instead and she falls head over broomstick for March. Blissfully hilarious and romantic, this Witch is blessed with great chemistry between March and Lake (who never looked lovelier), dryly funny one-liners, and a scene-stealing performance by Cecil Kellaway as Lake's perennially drunk warlock dad. Robert Benchley of Algonquin Round Table fame also pops up in a supporting role. Rumored but never actually confirmed to be the basis for the hit TV series Bewitched. --Mark Englehart
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Father and Daughter
Cecil Kellaway makes I MARRIED A WITCH a scary film indeed, and I suspect that John Huston must have recalled Kellaway's portrayal when he undertook the role of the evil, incest-driven patriarch in Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN. Against all odds, Kellaway has kept his daughter to himself for 270 years, thanks to the Puritans who have condemned him to live, as a ghost, in the form of smoke, under a giant oak tree on the ancestral property of the Wooley family. And in turn Kellaway has cursed the Wooleys, ensuring that, in each generation, no man shall find happiness in love, all will be married to ... Read More
Rating: - Delightful romantic comedy fantasy which shows all concerned at the top of their form...
Veronica Lake's fooling, charming, biting witch (released from the trunk of a tree by a freak lightning storm, she returns to upset the household and descendants of the man who had her burnt a few hundred years earlier) was a role that suited her to perfection: she was a spry, punchy little cockerel from Broolklyn - breeding ground of other feisty spirits such as Clara Bow, Barbara Stanwyck, Mae West and Susan Hayward - whose beauty hid brains, and whose brains worked fast to seize a chance and make the most of it... She also had an explosive temper which she unleashed on those bigger than she, in ... Read More
Rating: - Film is OKay, but the DVD release a disappointment
Release date "I MARRIED A WITCH" DVD: March 24, 2006.
April 4, 2006: this morning the sealed "I MARRIED A WITCH" DVD arrived, finally.
However... a big disappointment, in regards of the video & sound quality of this DVD: very, very bad:
a. the audio: the sound is like medium-wave, or a 78 rpm record, noisy, hiss, hum; a "nosy sound". Music with disortion.
b. video: like a VHS copy. Faces are often difficult to recognize; some drop-outs too.
c. less important: scene selection: 8; no subtitles, no extra's.
It's not a restored and/or a remastered ... Read More
Rating: - A Bewitching Comedy With Sexy Witch Veronica Lake
It's rare nowadays when you can say that you have seen a totally delightful comedy in the cinemas. That rare marriage of charming scenerio, ideally cast players, and romantic setting seems to be sadly a thing of the past which is why I always find "I Married a Witch", such enjoyable viewing. Here we have two very famous performers in dramatic veteran Fredric March, and Film Noir siren Veronica Lake playing against their usual "type" and having a field day cutting loose with this romantic screwball tale that combines sexy humour with elements of the supernatural. Based on the unfinished novel by "Topper", ... Read More
Rating: - A comedy fantasy
Format: Color Studio: Warner Studios Video Release Date: January 31, 1995
Cast:
Fredric March ... Jonathan Wooley/Nathaniel Wooley/Samuel Wooley/Wallace Wooley Veronica Lake ... Jennifer Robert Benchley ... Dr. Dudley White Susan Hayward ... Estelle Masterson Cecil Kellaway ... Daniel Elizabeth Patterson ... Margaret Robert Warwick ... J. B. Masterson Gordon De Main ... Man with Masterson on Radio Ralph Dunn ... First Jail Guard Frank Elliott ... Magistrate
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