Storyline
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.
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Starring Angela Lansbury
David Tomlinson
John Ericson
Ian Weighill
Cindy O'Callaghan
Roy Snart
Music by Songs:
Richard M. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman
Release date
October 7, 1971 (United Kingdom)
December 13, 1971 (United States)
Running time 119 minutes (1971 original version)
96 minutes (1979 reissue version)
139 minutes (1996 reconstruction version)
Budget $20 million
Box office $17,871,174
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