Directed by Frank Lloyd • 1937 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens

One of seven films frequent costars Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray made together, this proto-“Crucible” examination of small-town suspicion and paranoia unfolds in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, where the relationship between freethinking Barbara Clarke (Colbert) and adventurer Roger Coverman (MacMurray) causes a local scandal during the witch trials. When a hateful young girl (Bonita Granville) pretends to be possessed and accuses Barbara of practicing witchcraft, the lovers must fight for their happiness amid mounting hysteria.