Texas Witch

NAKED WITCH-1961-This movie is just under an hour yet the introduction (some sources credit Gary Owens as narrator) on witches is nearly 9 minutes. And then we get the credits! A graduate student (Robert Short) doing his thesis on superstition and witchcraft stops in a very German town called Luckenbach in Texas. He learns of the Luckenbach witch but people are afraid to talk about it. He meets Kriska (Jo Maryman), the innkeeper’s daughter. She gives him a book where he reads (flashback) about the witch widow who was burned at the stake after being accused of witchcraft by her lover, a married idiot with a sick wife. 

Somehow “The Student” (he doesn't have a name) finds the witch's grave and pulls a stake out of her “petrified” body. She transforms into the woman of the title (Libby Hall) who literally steals Kriska’s nightgown off her. Back for revenge she kills with the stake. The student doesn't bother telling anyone it's his fault the witch came back (one of her victims is Kriska’s father) but at night he goes hunting and finds her bathing topless. She casts a spell on him and they have a goofy swim together. Later she does a useless dance and makes him fall asleep. She goes out to kill Kriska. Fortunately he wakes up in time to stab the witch and bury her now decomposed body. Kriska is now free to live the rest of her life with the man responsible for her father's death. 

The music sounds like some radio soap opera. Larry Buchanan shares directing credit with the producer of the film Texas theater owner Claude Alexander. Buchanan made FREE, WHITE AND 21 next.

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Read about the real Luckenbach Texas here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luckenbach,_Texas