INHALT
The play on which this precursor to TV's Bewitched is based was a theatre hit for the elegant pairing of Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. Although James Stewart and Kim Novak - reunited from the same year's Vertigo - are pleasant enough in this screen version, they are left struggling in a lush but charmless adaptation sadly lacking the right magical brew. Novak was director Richard Quine's muse (and lover), but both did better work apart, particularly Quine, who also paired this film's co-stars Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs to far better effect in Operation Mad Ball. Still, the Oscar-nominated art direction/set decoration is strikingly effective, there's a fine performance from Pyewacket the cat, and rival witches Hermione Gingold and Elsa Lanchester are good fun.