Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 123movies

Watch: Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 123movies, Full Movie Online – During World War II in England, Charlie (Ian Weighill), Carrie (Cindy O’Callaghan), and Paul Rawlins (Roy Snart) are sent to live with Miss Eglantine Price (Dame Angela Lansbury), who, as it turns out, is 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 travelling spell” on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London, where they meet Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson), former 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..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 38,386
	67% | RottenTomatoes
	59/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 801 Popularity: 16.282 | TMDB

Reviews:

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 when the kids discover that she is a trainee witch, and when they meet “Emelius” (David Tomlinson) they embark on some adventures using their magical bed as their vehicle in the search for the missing part of a substitutiary locomotion spell that might just thwart the Nazis. As with “Poppins”, the music and lyrics come from the Sherman twins and “Beautiful Briny” and “Portobello Road” are probably the two best from their not so catchy soundtrack this time. Lansbury and Tomlinson work well together with the former on good form as the ostensibly prim and proper, but actually quite feisty and mischievous would-be witch. The three youngsters also perform well, especially the youngest “Paul” (Roy Snart) who just won’t let anyone else near the knob that controls the bed! A smattering of familiar faces help to keep the story bobbing along nicely and the animations, tough not so frequent as I would have liked, blend in well with some fun action scenes – especially at the end – and make for an enjoyable, feel-good, family movie.

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 witch-friend get an army of sentient suits of armour to fight the Nazis… Is it any bloody wonder I turned out the way I did?

Great movie though. Wouldn’t kill me to see a remake with modern technology. So long as it kept the vibe and setting of the original.

_Final rating:★★★★ – Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._

On par with Mary Poppins.
Mary Poppins is definitely much better, but this is a lovely film nonetheless. Angela Lansbury is splendidly dotty as Engletine Price, and David Tomlinson has great fun as Mr. Brown. Their chemistry was just brilliant as well. The children, however just lacked the same sparkle, though Paul is very funny and cute. The songs were actually not as bad as some people say, “Beautiful Briny Sea” is the best, in fact all the songs are outstanding. The special effects were wonderful, that had plenty of magic, and the story is original enough. The highlights, though, like Mary Poppins, were the animated sequences. The underwater sequence was beautiful, but my favourite was the football match, which was absolutely hilarious. The only other criticism was that I didn’t quite get the ending when I first saw it. All in all, a lovely film, that is hardly ever on. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Brings Back Memories of Grade School
I will always have a soft spot for this Disney flick, another of their part live action/part animation entries that sought to recreate the success of “Mary Poppins” and never quite made it. When I was in grade school, every once in a while we would have a movie day, where the whole school would crowd into the cafeteria, and a movie would be projected the old-fashioned way, multiple reels and all. At the time, it seemed like a momentous occasion whenever this day arrived, and “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” is one of the movies I can remember seeing this way.

And from what I remember, it’s quite charming. Angela Lansbury never put her name to anything that wasn’t at least competent, and she’s winning here as a witch with a magic bed (boy, that could be misconstrued, couldn’t it?) who can take her and a couple of young kids on magic adventures to far-off places. Come on, what kid wouldn’t want a bed like that?

Grade: A

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 57 min (117 min), 1 hr 29 min (89 min) (Germany), 1 hr 44 min (104 min) (West Germany), 2 hr 19 min (139 min) (restored) (1996) (USA), 1 hr 39 min (99 min) (re-release) (1980), 2 hr 10 min (130 min) (initial US release) (November 1971) (USA)
Budget 20000000
Revenue 17900000
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball
Writer Ralph Wright, Ted Berman, Bill Walsh
Actors Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 3 Channel Stereo (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.75 : 1
Camera Mitchell BNCR
Laboratory Four Media Company, Burbank (CA), USA (restoration), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,705 m (shortened version) (1980) (Finland), 3,228 m (1972) (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm