Conjure Wife | Movies & Media Adaptations

Conjure Wife Adaptations

Conjure Wife has been filmed three 906 times: first, as Weird Woman (1944) starring Lon Chaney; second, as an episode of NBC's Moment of Fear television series (1960); third, as Burn, Witch, Burn (1962), starring Janet Blair and Peter Wyngarde, with a screenplay by Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. The earliest production is fairly mediocre and leaves little of the original novel intact. The television version has been widely praised. The later film version, although causing confusion because it borrows its title from an A. Merritt novel (which itself was filmed as Devil Doll), is a solid piece of work.