What movie was released first, Hocus Pocus or The Sword in the Stone?
Hocus Pocus (1993 film) Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American comedy horror fantasy film directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker; written by Neil Cuthbert and Mick Garris, and based on a story by Garris and David Kirschner. It follows the villainous trio of witches, who are inadvertently resurrected by a male teenager as a virgin in Salem, Massachusetts.
Shoeshine (film) Shoeshine (Italian: Sciuscià ] , from Italian pronunciation of the English) is a 1946 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sometimes regarded as his first major work, the film follows two shoeshine boys who get into trouble with the police after trying to find the money to buy a horse.