Description
I married a witch DVD 1942 Boszorkányt vettem feleségül / Directed by René Clair / Starring: Veronica Lake, Fredric March / Black & White Classic
UPC 5999554700694
REGION 2 PAL DVD (Black & White)
MADE IN HUNGARY
AUDIO: English 5.1
SUBTITLES: Hungarian
Total Runtime: 77 MINUTES
CONDITION IS USED - VERY GOOD!
English Summary:
I Married a Witch is a 1942 American fantasy romantic comedy film, directed by René Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Fredric March as her foil. The film also features Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward and Cecil Kellaway.
Two witches in colonial Salem, Jennifer and her father Daniel, are burned at the stake after being denounced by Puritan Jonathan Wooley. Their ashes were buried beneath a tree to imprison their evil spirits. In revenge, Jennifer curses Wooley and all his male descendants, dooming them always to marry the wrong woman.
Centuries pass. Generation after generation, Wooley men marry cruel, shrewish women. Finally, in 1942, lightning splits the tree, freeing the spirits of Jennifer and Daniel. They discover Wallace Wooley, living nearby and running for governor, on the eve of marrying the ambitious and spoiled Estelle Masterson, whose father J.B. just happens to be Wooley's chief political backer.
Initially, Jennifer and Daniel manifest themselves as white vertical smoky 'trails', occasionally hiding in empty, or sometimes not-so-empty, bottles of alcohol. Jennifer persuades Daniel to create a human body for her so she can torment Wallace. Daniel needs a fire to perform the spell, so he burns down a building, appropriately enough, the Pilgrim Hotel. This serves dual purposes, as Jennifer uses it to get the passing Wallace to rescue her from the flames.
Hungarian Summary:
A boszorkányként megégetett Jennifer több mint 300 évet tölt apjával, Daniellel egy tölgyfában. Miután végre kiszabadulnak, a lány találkozik annak az inkvizítornak a legfiatalabb leszármazottjával, kinek családját máglyahalála előtt megátkozta. Az utód, Wallace Wooley vonzó, de teljesen hajszolt életét élő politikus. Jennifer - noha bosszúszomjas apja ettől korántsincs elragadtatva - beleszeret Wallace-ba. Kettejük vonzalma mind az átkon, mind az atyai bosszúvágyon győzedelmeskedik.
Valamikor, a XVI. században egy boszorkánysággal vádolt lányt, Jennifert és az apját máglyahalálra ítélik. Végső elkeseredésében a lány megátkozza Wooley inkvizítor családját. Azt kívánja, hogy valamennyi utódjának boldogtalan házassága legyen. Sok-sok generációval később Wallace Wooley kormányzójelölt az esküvőjére készülődik. Jennifer, a "boszorkány" apja társaságában visszatér a földre, hogy beteljesítsék a családi átkot. De a számításukba hiba csúszik: Jennifer beleszeret a férfiba.
Cast / Szereplők:
- Fredric March as Jonathan Wooley, Nathaniel Wooley, Samuel Wooley, and principally Wallace Wooley
- Veronica Lake as Jennifer
- Cecil Kellaway as Daniel
- Susan Hayward as Estelle Masterson
- Robert Benchley as Dr. Dudley White, Wooley's friend
- Elizabeth Patterson as Margaret, Wooley's housekeeper
- Eily Malyon as Tabitha Wooley
- Robert Warwick as J.B. Masterson
- Mary Field as Nancy Wooley
- Nora Cecil as Harriet Wooley
- Ann Carter as Jennifer Wooley
- Aldrich Bowker as Justice of the Peace
Directed by | René Clair |
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Produced by | René Clair Preston Sturges (both uncredited) |
Written by | Screenplay: Robert Pirosh Marc Connelly Dialogue: René Clair André Rigaud (both uncredited) Uncredited: Dalton Trumbo |
Based on | novel The Passionate Witch by Thorne Smith Norman H. Matson (completion) |
Starring | Veronica Lake Fredric March |
Music by | Roy Webb |
Cinematography | Ted Tetzlaff |
Edited by | Eda Warren |
Production
company |
Paramount Pictures
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Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date
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Running time
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77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |