The Witches of Salem (1957)

Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge. Her chance comes when she accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and manipulates younger girls to support her claims of seeing spirits. The town’s minister and politicians want a cause: ridding the town of witchcraft is the ideal repression.
Raymond Rouleau
Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Mylène Demongeot, Alfred Adam, Jean Debucourt, Raymond Rouleau, Pierre Larquey, Jean Gaven, Pascale Petit, Françoise Lugagne, Yves Brainville, Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Rignault, Aribert Grimmer, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Coutan-Lambert, Sabine Thalbach, Hans Klering, Vinnette Carroll, Madame Pâquerette, Ursula Körbs, Darling Légitimus, Werner Segtrop, Gerd Michael Henneberg, Jean Amadou, Chantal Gozzi, Véronique Nordey, Lucien Guervil, Jean Riveyre
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