The Crucible is a 1996 American historical drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Arthur Miller, based on his 1953 play. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor , Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams , Paul Scofield as Judge Thomas Danforth , Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor , Karron Graves as Mary Warren , and Bruce Davison as ...

The Crucible: Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen. A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

BAFTA FILM AWARD® winner A group of teenage girls accused of witchcraft suggest they were bewitched by various townspeople. Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder star in this adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials. Find out how and where to watch "The Crucible" online on Netflix, Prime …

A teenage girl’s (Winona Ryder) accusation that she was bewitched brings havoc to a small 17th-century New England town in this taut drama based on Arthur Miller’s celebrated play.

Dec 20, 1996 · By the light of a full moon, a minister happens upon a group of adolescent girls, naked, dancing in the forest around a boiling pot of witches’ brew. In all the troubled history of Salem, was there ever an event like this? How did the …

Sep 2, 2012 · The Crucible is a film version of Arthur Miller’s classic play about Puritan society, the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and, metaphorically, the Red Scare during the period 1947 – 1956. Miller wrote the screenplay for the movie, giving the film more credibility than most screen adaptations of theatrical works.

The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. [2]

A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved.