October 12, 2012
Night of the Eagle
Sidney Hayers, UK, 1962, 90 min
(Known in the U.S. as Burn, Witch, Burn!) Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde), a psychology professor lecturing in belief and superstition, discovers that his wife Tansy (Janet Blair) is a practicing witch. She is insistent that her charms have been responsible for his academic success. Angry at her superstition, he forces her to burn them all. But almost immediately things start to go wrong for him as pupils accuse him of sexual harassment and bullying. He is drawn into his wife’s web of superstitions, forced to believe in order to survive as a rival witch tries to use black magic to destroy him and his wife – WIKI
