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The Innocents

Blu-Ray - 2014 Blu-ray Horror Innocents 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.3 out of 5

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Based on the novella: The turn of the screw / by Henry James.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.
Includes theatrical trailer (3 min.).
Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarge, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Clytie Jessop, Isla Cameron.
Michael Redgrave, Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde.
"Set in nineteenth-century England, this gothic ghost story centers around a governess taking care of two orphans in a foreboding Victorian mansion. As eerie apparitions appear and the children's behavior becomes strange, the governess begins to wonder about the fate of the previous governess and her sadistic lover. Could it be that their restless spirits are trying to corrupt the innocence of the children, or is this 'haunting' a product of her own fears and imagination?"--Container.
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).
Blu-ray.
Contents: Turn of the screw.

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Very effective adaptation submitted by andrewjmac on June 25, 2017, 12:38pm This lacks some of the punch of the original story, but there is always a trick in adapting something that relies so completely on the WAY it is written rather than just what is written. Masterful camera work and musical cues heighten tension beautifully. A well-crafted film, especially for 1961. But read the Henry James story first, if you are so inclined: this film is good, but the novella is a work of genius.