A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
Night of the Eagle is a 1962 British horror film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Peter Wyngarde and Janet Blair. Its plot follows an esteemed sociology professor who discovers that his professional achievements and successes are the result of his wife practicing witchcraft. The screenplay by Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, and George Baxt was based upon the 1943 Fritz Leiber novel Conjure Wife. It was made by AIP and Anglo-Amalgamated who co produced a number of films together including Circus of Horrors.
