Bell, Book and Candle
by Richard Quine
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Actor: Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Kim NovakDirector: Richard Quine
Brand: STEWART,JAMES
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Editor: Charles Nelson
Producer: Julian Blaustein
Writer: Daniel Taradash
Writer: John Van Druten
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Bell, Book and Candle
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Summary: 4 Stars
I think this movie is best described as cute, campy, and sexy. Taken in the context of the times, this film just oozes sensuality, and does it with style and class. It's all over this film, and it's verrrry,.......... affective. The filming is gorgeous, top notch for this type of film. The chemistry between Novak and Stewart is more than believable, it's borderline scandalous. What a great date movie,...wow.! There is nothing about this film that isn't cute, sentimental, and yummy. If you're not feeling that, you're watching the wrong movie.
Summary of Bell, Book and Candle
Novak is a witch who casts a spell on a book publisher (Stewart) to make him fall in love with her. He is most unhappy when he finds out what happened.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 28-MAR-2000
Media Type: DVD
Staid, secure publisher James Stewart leads a quiet life until he meets his bewitching downstairs neighbor, Kim Novak. John Van Druten's lighthearted Broadway comedy becomes a lush if lightweight romantic vehicle for Stewart and Novak, who would reunite for Hitchcock's Vertigo the next year. Novak is at her best as a Greenwich witch halfway between the worlds of magic and mortals, looking after her dotty aunt (Elsa Lanchester) and mischievous warlock brother (Jack Lemmon) as they keep their skills in practice. Novak's specialty is making men fall for her, but it's a one-way street: when a witch falls in love, she loses her powers. Director Richard Quine gives the witches an almost beatnik sensibility, a real Greenwich Village subculture hanging out in underground clubs and smart curio shops. Elegantly photographed in rich, glowing colors by James Wong Howe, Bell, Book and Candle is a fantasy world in New York set to a funky bongo-laced jazz score by George Duning. Quine's gliding camera is somewhat marred by abrupt editing, but his handling of actors is superb, in particular Novak, whose mysterious beauty masks inner turmoil and romantic yearnings. Ernie Kovacs appears as a wry author whose specialty is the supernatural, and Hermione Gingold is suitably florid as a witch elder with a penchant for theatricality. For once in his life Stewart is actually upstaged by the slyly comic performances around him. --Sean Axmaker
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