i can watch b and b and c and feel all the emotion i felt when i first saw it at age 18 well and maybe all but one . certainly miss k. novak have lose none of her silky allure in nearly half a century . she be a thinking youth diana dors . all those think youth now collect their pension can briefly regain the heart clutching and collar tightening and blood pulse ardour they felt when she gaze directly into their eye back in the day when they be be tell that they have never have it so good . now and huddle up against the cold and fearful of be mug by a hoodie and they scuttle home as fast a their arthritic knee can carry them from the video shop and relatively happy in the certain knowledge that within the triple lock comparative safety of their fourth floor tower block flat they can regain just a small fragment of their lose youth and perhaps reflect that love truly be eternal . this movie be miss novak golden moment . she seize it avidly and give a performance of awesome voluptuousness combine with a hypnotic awareness of her own sex appeal and and despite all this and she convince u that her character possess a strange and beguiling innocence . she completely dominate the amiable mr j. stewart who seem resign to hand her the movie . miss e. lanchester and h. gingold offer comic relief along with mr e. kovacs whose peculiar talent be strictly proscribe . mr j. lemmon play miss novak brother . he be a beatnik and a specie that disappear as soon a it realise that it existence be be acknowledge by the mainstream . some of the more hardcore beat reinvent themselves a hippy a few year later . certainly they have become figure of fun by 1958 and mr lemmon do not appear overly concern with restraint in portray one . but all else be mere frippery and miss novak bath in a particularly beautiful spectrum of technicolor be the sole raison detre for bell and book and candle . it survive and it reputation enhance and a the ultimate showcase for one of hollywood most beautiful woman . love by moviegoer and ignore by critic and miss novak will continue to captivate with that enigmatic smile all the time think old men have the strength to push the play button on their dvd . one day and probably after we be all go and she will be discover by a new generation who will belatedly realise that it be quite possible for a woman to be fully dress and sexually attractive at the same time .