James Stewart

Kim Novak

Jack Lemmon

Ernie Kovacs

Hermione Gingold

Elsa Lanchester

Janice Rule

Philippe Clay

Bek Nelson

Howard McNear

Fred Aldrich

Leon Alton

Monty Ash

Alex Ball

Joe Barry

Wolfe Barzell

Gail Bonney

Don Brodie

Robert Haines

James Lanphier

Perk Lazelle

Ted Mapes

Hans Moebus

Ollie O'Toole

John Truax

Charles Nelson

Richard Quine

Cary Odell

Jean Louis

Daniel Taradash

Julian Blaustein

George Duning

John Van Druten

James Wong Howe

Ben Lane

Win Hancock

Rhoda Donaldson

Val O'Malley

Franklin Hansen

John Field

Helen Hunt

Irving J. Moore

John P. Livadary

Max Stein

Albert Bettcher

Richard H. Kline

Louis Diage

Comedy

Fantasy

Romance

Bell, Book and Candle

Julian Blaustein Productions

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

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

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Bell Book and Candle (1958) Original Trailer [HD]

Bell, Book and Candle (1959) - Classic Clip - I'm Allergic To Your Cat - James Stewart - Kim Novak

Sam Hamm on BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE