A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
Acting
Veronica Lake's deadpan delivery could stop traffic — and does.
Direction
René Clair somehow makes a burning witch funny. The French, man.
Writing
The father-daughter witch bickering is sitcom gold decades early.
Director
René Clair
Fredric March
Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
Veronica Lake
Jennifer
Robert Benchley
Dr. Dudley White
Susan Hayward
Estelle Masterson
Cecil Kellaway
Daniel
Elizabeth Patterson
Margaret
Robert Warwick
J. B. Masterson
Georgia Backus
Older Woman (uncredited)
Charles Bates
Wooley's Son (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Country Club Guest (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Puritan Vendor (uncredited)
Marie Blake
Purity Sykes (uncredited)
Monte Blue
Doorman (uncredited)
Aldrich Bowker
Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film allegedly inspired 'Bewitched' — Elizabeth Montgomery's nose-twitch is basically Veronica Lake's legacy in syndication.
Fredric March allegedly hated this shoot and called Lake 'a brainless little blonde sexpot' — their on-screen frostiness? Method acting, baby.
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