Bedknobs And Broomsticks

– Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinst..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 57 Minutes
Release Year:
1971
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - Trailer

Release Date:

13 Dec 1971

Language:

English, German

MPAA Content-Rating:
G – General Audiences

All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.

Director:

Robert Stevenson

Writer:

Ralph Wright (animation story), Ted Berman (animation story), Bill Walsh (screenplay), Don DaGradi (screenplay), Mary Norton (book)

Main Actors:

Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe

Plot:

During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.

Awards:

Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.

Production:

Buena Vista Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
Metacritic:
59%