#bell book and candle

[summertimenoir]

Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle. That's how they used to exorcise them.

Bell Book and Candle (1958) - dir. Richard Quine

[wellntruly]

This is currently FAR too close for comfort, please look at baby Jack Lemmon playing the bongos like a total freak in (seasonal film!) Bell, Book and Candle - linked start time 4m20s, keep watching for more malevolent beatnik behavior

Should mention also that he's a ✨boy witch🌙, and spends most of his screen time being a mischievous little brother, magical edition, and trying to seduce a (male) writer.

Jack Lemmon (The Great Race, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot)—He's the everyman, he's clumsy, he's strange, in nearly every movie he finds himself in the oddest of circumstances because he's taken advantage of or because of... bad luck? You empathize with him, he's really a little guy. And yet... Why is he so hot? Why does he have this charm, this hidden fire, this weird kind of... elegance? You can't help but sense this magnetism he radiates. There is power in his charming eccentricity and clumsiness. He just really draws you in and you want to explore what it is that makes him so scrungly and so attractive at once.

Charles Hawtrey (The Ghost of St Michael's, Carry On Screaming, Carry On Doctor)—He started off playing geeky schoolboys and went on to play a lavatory attendant, a man who had a sympathetic pregnancy when his wife was having a baby, and the Duc De Pommfrit, an exiled French aristocrat at the time of the revolution. For good and bad, he was a generation's image of a 'confirmed bachelor'. Immortalised in the intro to Beatles song The Two Of Us, and featured on the cover of a Smiths album, and how many scrungly little guys can say that?

This is round 2 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you’re confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Charles Hawtrey:

Jack Lemmon:

his chemistry with judy holliday in their two movies together is ZOINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i couldn't find any clips of that so watch him have mad chemistry with peter falk instead in my favorite campiest film of all time instead

His character in Glengary Glen Ross is literally the archetype Pathetic Guy. Even if you haven't seen this film I PROMISE you have seen iterations of Jack Lemmon's character from it. His character in Days of Wine and Roses will break your heart and show what an amazing range he has. [editor's note: I haven't seen either of these films so don't consider them recs from me. Also please keep your propaganda within the 1910-1970 range. tw for alcoholism in the clip below.]

[snowbairdd]

Look, there's that man upstairs. He's different. Why don't I ever know people like that? Hmm? Why don't you give me him for Christmas, Pye? Why don't you give me him?

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (1958) dir. Richard Quine

[zoirohs]

Kim Novak in BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (1958) dir. Richard Quine

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Kim Novak as Gillian Holroyd BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE 1958 — dir. Richard Quine

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Bell, Book and Candle (1958) dir. Richard Quine

[riverlarking]

James Stewart in Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

[audreys-hepburn]

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE — 1958, dir. Richard Quine

[ladyhawke]

You know what it says on love potions... shake well but don't tell.

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE – (1958) dir. Richard Quine

[marypickfords]

Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)

[summertimenoir]

Elsa Lanchester and Kim Novak in Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

[esqueletosgays]

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (1958)

Director: Richard Quine Cinematography: James Wong Howe

[onefootin1941]

[filmgifs]

Kim Novak as Gillian Holroyd BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE — 1958, dir. Richard Quine

[classic-hollywood-glam]

Bell Book and Candle 1958

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Richard Quine _ Bell, Book and Candle (1958)