Anno di produzione: 1971

Stato del film: Catalogo

Paese d'origine: USA
Versioni alternative: - In 1979, the film was cut by 20 minutes for theatrical re-release. All but two of the songs are cut here. This version of the film is shown on broadcast and basic cable television - In 1996, to commemorate the film's 25th anniversary, a longer cut was produced. It has 24 minutes of extra scenes cut from the film before release. Among these new scenes are two songs: "With a Flair" and "Nobody's Problems for Me", the songs "Eglantine" and "Portobello Road" were restored to their original lengths, and scenes with Roddy McDowall. It was screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on September 27, 1996 and will be released on video in March 1997.
Genere: Adventure Family Fantasy Musical
Lingue: English
Plot: In August of 1940 in the English village of Pepperinge Eye, three cockney orphans are sent to live with Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), who is studying to become an apprentice witch. When she receives a letter from the Correspondence College of Witchcraft in London, she and the children fly on a bed (by way of a magic bedknob) to London to meet the headmaster of the defunct school, Emelius Brown (David Tomlinson). At a townhouse where Mr. Brown is staying, Miss Price finds half of a book called THE SPELLS OF ASTOROTH. For the other half, they deal with a shady character known as the Bookman (Sam Jaffe). 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.
Colonna sonora: - "The Old Home Guard" - "The Age of Not Believing" - "Eglantine" - "Portabello Road" - "The Beautiful Briny Sea" - "Substitutiary Locomotion" Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Visti censura internazionale: UK:U Finland:S USA:G Argentina:Atp Sweden:Btl
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