Bell Book and Candle Page #3

Synopsis: Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him--especially as it turns out he's marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian's college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.
Director(s): Richard Quine
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
APPROVED
Year:
1958
106 min
1,694 Views


Well, it has to be around here

some place.

I looked it up in the directory.

All right, Shep, I grant you

this place may be different.

But must it be invisible?

Now, listen.

I swear I hear music.

Don't you hear music?

Uh-uh. Now, listen.

Listen. Shh, shh.

What's that? Look.

[ Continues, Muffled]

Drums.

[Laughs]

Hey, hello down there!

Hello! Zodiac?

Hello down- Hey, this is it.

See there?

Okay, I'll bet this is it.

There. A trail.

Follow the yellow line...

and keep going and keep going...

and there is an arrow.

Success. Come on.

[Continues]

Are you sure you wouldn't rather

go back to El Morocco?

Oh, come on.

This will be fun.

Good evening.

Oh, hello.

Providing the signs are favourable,

the Zodiac welcomes you.

Date of your birth, sir?

Um, March 12.

Sign of the fish.

The time is favourable.

[Laughing]

Fish. Sign of the fish.

[Chuckles]

Shep, this is the scrabby end.

The night is favourable- auspicious

for love, pleasure, entertainment.

Go right down. Oh, thanks.

Thanks. Come on.

[Crowd Applauding]

[ Band:
Up Tempo]

[ Man Singing In French]

[Continues In French]

it's not supposed to be known,

but he's from the Paris chapter.

[Continues In French]

This is a charming little number...

about a man who was assassinated

and thrown into a river.

That was 10 years ago,

and there he's been all this time...

at the bottom.

Without food, alcohol

or a female friend.

In addition, he detests water.

[Chuckles]

You won't catch her at El Morocco.

She looks like she's been living

in a pickle barrel.

[Continues]

[ Ends] [Crowd Cheering]

I think she's the one.

There's a snapshot of her in his desk drawer.

But, Auntie, I think...

Yes. Yes, I'm sure I do.

I know that girl.

[Crowd Chattering]

[Slow Tempo]

You sure you don't mind?

Of course not.

We're delighted.

That's very kind of you.

There we are.

Thank you.

I believe Miss Kittridge

and I know each other.

Oh? I don't seem

to remember.

Wellesley. We were

in the same dormitory.

Yes. Yes, of course.

You were that girl who used

to come to class barefoot.

[Laughs] They put you on

probation for it, didn't they?

Somebody wrote a note

to the dean about it.

I wear them in public now,

Mr. Henderson. Oh, sure.

That, uh- that band certainly is different.

Yes, Nicky and the boys

play very well together.

Nicky's the one playing the bongos.

- Up to a few months ago, he'd never studied music.

- He's quite remarkable.

Yes, particularly when you consider that,

before that, he used to work in an herb shop.

Uh-huh. Looks to me as if

he's eaten one herb too many.

[Chuckling] That's why he

acts so creepy, I suppose.

No, it's not that at all.

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Daniel Taradash

Daniel Taradash was born on January 29, 1913 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA as Daniel Irwin Taradash. He was a writer, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), Picnic (1955) and Bell Book and Candle (1958). He was married to Madeleine Forbes. He died on February 22, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA. more…

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