I Married a Witch (1942) Gets a Criterion Edition

October 8, 2020

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The Criterion Collection released I Married a Witch to Blu-ray on October 8, 2013. René Clair directed film starring Fredric March, Veronica Lake, and Robert Benchley.

‘I Married a Witch’ Criterion Synopsis

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). The most delightful of the films the innovative French director René Clair made in Hollywood, I Married a Witch is a comic confection bursting with playful special effects and sparkling witticisms.

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Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio interview with director René Clair
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Guy Maddin; plus a 1970 interview with Clair (Blu-ray only)

New cover by Eric Skillman

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