Back in the Blue Ridge Mountains Billy Ben Turner (played by James Best) is in love with Ellwyn Glover.\u00a0 At a town dance he proposes to her and she accepts.\u00a0 But Billy Ben\u2019s old girlfriend Jess-Belle Stone (played by Anne Francis) is desperate to win back Billy Ben.\u00a0 She goes to the local witch Granny Hart and begs her for a love potion but Jess-Belle has no money.\u00a0 Being desperate she agrees to give Granny Hart whatever else she wants.\u00a0 Granny Hart gives her a potion to drink and after a painful transition Jess-Belle is told that Billy Ben will never look at another woman as long as Jess-Belle is alive.<\/p>\n
Jess-Belle goes to a dance and Billy Ben is immediately hypnotized and leaves the dance with Jess-Belle.\u00a0 Ellwyn is devastated but she warns Jess-Belle that witchcraft always ends badly.\u00a0 And so, it does for Jess-Belle she discovers that she has herself has become a witch.\u00a0 She has lost her soul and now every night she turns into a leopard.\u00a0 Knowing that the townspeople have gathered to hunt the big cat that night, Jess-Belle begs her mother to lock her in her room and not let her out.\u00a0 But the leopard escapes the house and goes after Ellwyn in the family barn.\u00a0 Luckily, the hunters show up to save Ellwyn and they shoot down the witch cat and it disappears in a puff of smoke.\u00a0 But Billy Ben who was one of the hunters finds his engagement ring that he had given to Jess-Belle on the ground where the leopard had been.<\/p>\n
Released from Jess-Belle\u2019s influence Billy Ben returns to Ellwyn and they are eventually married.\u00a0 But Jess-Belle\u2019s mother warns him that her daughter\u2019s spirit still haunts the area and that she will try to revenge herself on Billy Ben and Ellwyn.\u00a0 Billy Ben goes to Granny Hart and finds out that to kill a witch he must use her clothes to make an image of her and then stab it through the heart with a silver pin.<\/p>\n
When he gets home Ellwyn\u2019s body has been possessed by Jess-Belle\u2019s spirit and she is threatening to take him away.\u00a0 But he is able to use one of her dresses and a silver pin to attack her.\u00a0 The dress suddenly contains Jess-Belle and she dies and evaporates.\u00a0 Now Ellwyn and Billy Ben are happily together and looking up in the night sky they see a shooting star and Ellwyn claims that the star means that a witch has died.<\/p>\n
A hillbilly witch story, yeehah!\u00a0 James Best and Anne Francis are a lot of fun as the protagonists.\u00a0 It\u2019s not exactly Shakespeare but it is very entertaining.\u00a0 I\u2019ll say B+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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