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Old 4th May 2024, 10:53 AM
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The Innocents. 1961.

One of the best adaptations of Turn Of The Screw, this one sees Deborah Kerr playing the governess to Pamela Franklin and Martin Stephens as the orphaned children while the spirits of Peter Wyngarde and Clytie Jessop are tormenting the governess.

Is The Innocents a ghost story or something psychological like a game to drive the new member of staff to brink of loosing her sanity...either way it does play on your mind as a audience member as everyone involved do play their part well especially with Miles who seems to have a troubled background and who knows how his mischievous mind works while being assisted by his sister or is it just him altogether and being influenced by the late vale Quint. Darlk gothic and atmospheric sets in well and created brilliantly by Jack Clayton and Freddie Francis.

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