ComedyFantasyRomance

Bell, Book and Candle

- Getting here is half the fun...

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.

Release Date : 1958-12-25

Language :EnglishFrenchItalian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Julian Blaustein ProductionsColumbia Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Shep Henderson

Original Name : James Stewart

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gillian Holroyd

Original Name : Kim Novak

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nicky Holroyd

Original Name : Jack Lemmon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sidney Redlitch

Original Name : Ernie Kovacs

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bianca de Passe

Original Name : Hermione Gingold

Gender : Female

Character Name : Aunt Queenie Holroyd

Original Name : Elsa Lanchester

Gender : Female

Character Name : Merle Kittridge

Original Name : Janice Rule

Gender : Female

Character Name : French Singer at the Zodiac Club

Original Name : Philippe Clay

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tina

Original Name : Bek Nelson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Andy White

Original Name : Howard McNear

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mover (uncredited)

Original Name : Fred Aldrich

Gender : Male

Character Name : Club Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Leon Alton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Herb Store Owner (uncredited)

Original Name : Monty Ash

Gender : Male

Character Name : Club Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Alex Ball

Gender : Male

Character Name : Exterminator (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Barry

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zodiac Club Proprietor (uncredited)

Original Name : Wolfe Barzell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Betty - Merle's Maid (uncredited)

Original Name : Gail Bonney

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cab Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : Don Brodie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Club Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Haines

Gender : Male

Character Name : Waldo (uncredited)

Original Name : James Lanphier

Gender : Male

Character Name : Club Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Perk Lazelle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gillian's Customer (uncredited)

Original Name : Ted Mapes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Club Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Hans Moebus

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Original Name : Ollie O'Toole

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cab Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : John Truax

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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