

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
You'll beWITCHED! You'll beDAZZLED! You'll be swept into a world of enchantment BEYOND ANYTHING BEFORE!
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $20M
- Box office
- $17.9M
- Language
- English
- witch
- flying
- nazi
- world war ii
- knight
- live action and animation
- children in wartime
- farmer's market
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalG7 Oct 1971
- PhysicalG23 Oct 1989
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU7 Oct 1971
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalG7 Dec 1971
BrazilBR
- TheatricalL7 Jan 1972
DenmarkDK
- TheatricalA15 Dec 1972
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-77 Oct 1971
FranceFR
- TheatricalU13 Dec 1972
GermanyDE
- Theatrical015 Dec 1972
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG7 Jul 1972
ItalyIT
- Theatrical3 Oct 1972
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG1210 Mar 1973
RomaniaRO
- TheatricalAP7 Oct 1971
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks was released on 7 October 1971.
Audience reviews
2- G8/10
Gimly
3/18/2018
When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of my life alone in a studio with one of those tiny little 15cm TVs you wouldn't be caught dead with nowadays, plugged in to a VCR player, and exactly three movies on VHS. One of those three movies (the best of those three) was _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_. I watched it multiple times a day, every day, for months at a time. A period piece musical that saw orphans and their witc…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/26/2022
It's very much in the vein of "Mary Poppins" (1964) this, with a very similar style of live-action and animated sequences used to tell a slightly more menacing story. When three siblings arrive in a rural English village, evacuated from London during the Blitz of WWII, they are placed with the rather eccentric and definitely unwilling "Miss Price" (Angela Lansbury). Things start to look up for all concerned though wh…
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