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About
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Theatrical
Nov 27, 1996
Box Office
$7.3M
Budget
$25.0M
Return
0.3x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 1, 2004
Director
Nicholas Hytner
Writer
Arthur Miller
Producers
Mitchell Levin, Robert A. Miller, David V. Picker
Music
George Fenton
Studio
20th Century Fox
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Quotes
See all →Unresolved Feelings and Rejected Past
Abigail Williams
I know how you sweated like a stallion whenever I'd come near you. I saw your face when she put me out. You loved me then, and you do now.
John Proctor
Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time - but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.
Abigail Williams
Aye, but we did.
Land Dispute Among Neighbors
Thomas Putnam
I warned you once before, Proctor! That's my lumber! You're in my bounds!
John Proctor
My land's always run up through the forest, and I haven't sold any, Putnam.
Thomas Putnam
It is clear in my grandfather's will. My land...
Giles Corey
Your grandfather damn near willed away my north pasture! But he knew I'd break his arm if he tried it. Go on!
Witchcraft Accusations in Courtroom Drama
Judge Hathorne
Now, Sarah Osborne, here is Sarah Good, who has confessed to witchcraft and therefore will not hang. I bid you, follow her example. She testifies that when the devil came to her, you were in his company.
Sarah Good
There he stood, big as life, him and her, and Osborne writing her name in his book with her own red blood!
Sarah Osborne
Your Honors, I never see the devil in my life. But I can dance as fast backwards as I can forwards!
[stands up from the bench]
Judge Hathorne
Sit down, I tell you. Sit! Sit her down!
Sarah Osborne
Let go of me! You must stop your funning. You must give up your stories. You bring me to harm! Do you hear me? You bring me to harm!
[advances to Abigail and the girls]
Abigail Williams
Oh! Stop hurting me, Goody Osborne! Help me, Judge Danforth!
[frightened]
Judge Danforth
What are you doing to these girls?
Judge Hathorne
What do you mumble to make them so sick?
Reciting the Commandments in The Crucible
Rev. John Hale
Do you know your commandments, Mr. Proctor?
John Proctor
Aye.
Rev. John Hale
Would you recite them please?
John Proctor
The commandments?
Rev. John Hale
Aye.
John Proctor
Thou shalt not kill.
Rev. John Hale
Aye.
John Proctor
Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods, nor covet thy neighbors wives, thou shalt have no other Gods before me, thou shalt not use the Lord's name in vain, thou shalt keep holy the sabbath day, thou shalt honor thy mother and father, thou shalt not bare to false witness... thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wives.
Cast
Full credits →D
Daniel Day-Lewis
John Proctor
Winona Ryder
Abigail Williams
P
Paul Scofield
Judge Thomas Danforth
Joan Allen
Elizabeth Proctor
B
Bruce Davison
Reverend Parris
R
Rob Campbell
Reverend Hale
J
Jeffrey Jones
Thomas Putnam
P
Peter Vaughan
Giles Corey
K
Karron Graves
Mary Warren
C
Charlayne Woodard
Tituba
F
Frances Conroy
Ann Putnam
E
Elizabeth Lawrence
Rebecca Nurse
G
George Gaynes
Judge Samuel Sewall
M
Mary Pat Gleason
Martha Corey
R
Robert Breuler
Judge Hathorne
R
Rachael Bella
Betty Parris
A
Ashley Peldon
Ruth Putnam
T
Tom McDermott
Francis Nurse
J
John Griesemer
Ezekiel Cheever
M
Michael Gaston
Marshal Herrick
