Flashback: Joe Dante on ‘I Married a Witch’ (1942)
“It’s a delightful, charming, and very funny movie engagingly played by a terrific cast.”
Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, this blonde bombshell with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them—a prospective governor (Fredric March) about to marry a spoiled socialite (Susan Hayward).
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“This 1942 progenitor of the Bewitched TV series was produced at Paramount,” notes director Joe Dante in the video. “But an overabundance of product led the studio to sell the movie to United Artists and thus it became one of those neglected Indies which have only sporadically been available over the years in goopy low-grade copies. Thankfully, the Criterion Collection has released an upgraded, top-quality transfer of this classic film that, like its director [Rene Clair], has fallen through the cracks in recent years.”
The most delightful of the films the innovative French director René Clair made in Hollywood, I Married a Witch is a comic film chock-full of engaging wit and fun special effects.
