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The Crucible (1957)
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Drama , History
Simone Signoret , Yves Montand , Jean Debucourt , Alfred Adam , Pierre Larquey , Mylène Demongeot , Jean Gaven , Jeanne Fusier-Gir , Françoise Lugagne ,
Coutan-Lambert , Aribert Grimmer , Pascale Petit , Yves Brainville , Michel Piccoli , Alexandre Rignault
Raymond Rouleau
IMDB 145
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 manites 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. John too| is accused; Abigail offers him a way to avoid hanging.
Elisabeth has her own confession.