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directed by: Cyril Frankel starring: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell, Ingrid Boulting  List Price: $29.98 Price: $23.99 You Save: $5.99 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305808176 Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6305808171 Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Release Date: July 25, 2000 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: 1967-02 Sales Rank: 77051 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Highly effective supernatural thriller.Kudos to the multiple other posters who recognize this as a winner! It's hard, indeed, to understand why other Hammer fans ignore this entry, particularly since its script is far more literate than many of their other pictures from the same time frame. In any case, the Hammer production team does a wonderful job here of conveying the small village ambience and the screenplay follows Norah Loft's novel very closely. What makes this film so distinctive is its understatement--the horror when it emerges ... Read More Rating:  - Underrated Hammer chillerI enjoyed this immensely, although it tends to get panned even by Hammer horror fans. Once the daft opening was over, I found it suitably chilling. The trio of central performances - namely Joan Fontaine, Alec McCowen and Kay Walsh - are great, and it really benefits from Richard Rodney Bennett's typically expert score. It prefigures The Wicker Man in its tale of an outsider coming to a village wrapped up in occultic religion, and also has a hint of The Birds, which I'm sure can't be coincidental - Fontaine ... Read More Rating:  - An intriguing near-missThe Witches aka The Devil's Own is an interesting but ultimately unsuccessful attempt by Hammer to make a serious(ish) movie about witchcraft. Nigel Kneale's screenplay displays some of his customary intelligence, but here he seems hindered by working not from an original story but by adapting Norah Loft's novel. A deathly pale Joan Fontaine is the schoolteacher recovering from a nervous breakdown who takes a job in an outwardly idyllic English village only to gradually suspect that there are darker forces at ... Read More Rating: - Based on a novelThis movie is based on a novel, which goes by the titles "The Devil's Own", "The Little Wax Doll", and "Catch as Catch Can", depending on your geographical location and book edition. The author is Norah Lofts, writing under the psuedonym Peter Curtis for "The Devil's Own", a wonderful author of English historical fiction. Her novels are fairly inexpensive and easy to find. Give the book a try! Rating: - Joan Fontaine and the Coven of the KookyIn her last appearance on the silver screen, Joan Fontaine, who won an Academy Award for her performance in Suspicion (1941), stars in this Hammer Studios release of The Witches (1967). While the material here is certainly not of the caliber of some of the previous films she's appeared in, it is fun to watch. Maybe I have some lurid fascination of seeing once great stars reduced to appearing in roles they probably would have never considered in their prime. Joan plays Gwen Mayfield, a teacher who ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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