“I MARRIED A WITCH”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 65, 11 December 1943, Page 5

“I MARRIED A WITCH”

-I Married a Witch” Uyiug’st is the story of a num who nnirries a \. ... p Iw'ins with a prologue set in a England of IW, " hero J ’ ll V ’ d'e’ Wooley tl'i-edric March > rlgl tiouelj imunecs n skittish y"uug ” 1 c , l iv'eniitde sorcerer fattier. . Before the mil » toil • are barbecued af t lie stake, nod tbeir un regenerate souls cautiously J ve the sturdy oak tin- witch manages Io bail ’ iast word. It is her neerommitie that Wooley and bis eons sons should a wavs marry tin? wrong woman. liuiek shots reveal the results "ft l "' l ful curse down the ecnturics. mid it P “ the present when another c” I’redrle March) running tor him about to marry the shrewish din.mm (Susan Hayward) of bi^ -'q Vm',’ > • backer. At this point a bolt ol li-litmn~ rends the ancient oak and he t o wratl- - wraiths arc- released o I’ l ' l -' J ' ,s “ drakes with their Jiercditait n* m.x. The witch, in Hu- term. &"’<•’ ?-'n'to tar hair-do of Veronica Lake, blows into Wooley'! life In a puff of f ’ 1 "" T,J‘" d reeds to disrupt it with low p t ta b " 1 rieanes iu the draw'ing-rooin a id tlie 1R ■ He can't get away from her !>••• iitis'» sh> siniplv lias to call for tier broomstick unit she gets there first. Iu the end lie !>'-’’ rr "’ s her like a sensible man and Mie gl'ts »P all her witchcraft for knitting and good works. Happy ever after.' Not a bit of it. The wife’s nU right, the bojs • l,t a ‘ l ri~ht the home’s the sort ol place where vou would let your children go to te:i. Bur the little girl, the baby, rides a broomstick, mid in 20 years’ is likely to be mure trouble among tnu W Tlumgh “I Married a Witch" doesn’t role as niij.li on trick photography as Thorne Smith's "Topper" series the earner! indul'-es in some uncanny phenomena, including the nice moment when the witch's fattier insinuates himself into the hodv of our old friend fecit Re.la way. which lie finds lying around. Hie story of this sentimental sabbath is not always a effective as it might be. but, m its subtler moments tbe comcdy-idiantasy is as deas anyone has a riuht to export from the director of “The Gbo, Goes. West.” For it was made, by Rene (.lair.