The Innocents

Name: The Innocents
Director: Jack Clayton
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1961
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens

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Horror
Drama

1961
Jack Clayton
95 mins
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Summary

Horror, based on Henry James's short story The Turn of the Screw, starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave and Peter Wyngarde. A young governess comes to believe that the angelic-seeming children in her charge are possessed by the evil spirits of two dead lovers. But is the mysterious country mansion they inhabit truly haunted or is the children's strange behaviour a fantasy of her own imagination?

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

As this terrifying and undeservedly neglected picture proves, there was much more to British cinema in the early 1960s than angry young men prowling round the grim north. Truman Capote and John Mortimer both had a hand in the script for this adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, in which a governess fears her young charges may be possessed by the spirits of dead lovers. Deborah Kerr is excellent as the haunted Miss Giddens, Pamela Franklin and Martin Stephens send shivers down the spine as the sinister orphans in her care and Peter Wyngarde is evil personified as the brutal Quint. Never has horror looked so beautiful, with Freddie Francis reinforcing the eerie atmosphere with his unforgettable photography. The film bristles with menace as it draws you inexorably towards its chilling conclusion.

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7.7/10

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rolenameMiss GiddensDeborah KerrUncleMichael RedgravePeter QuintPeter WyngardeMrs GroseMegs JenkinsMilesMartin StephensFloraPamela FranklinMiss JesselClytie JessopAnnaIsla Cameron