The Innocents

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Deborah Kerr excels as a sexually represented governess suspecting sinister forces at play in the mansion of her new employer.

  • Director

    Jack Clayton

  • With

    Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins

  • UK-USA 1961. 100min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    12A

In this exquisite adaptation of Henry James’ ghost story The Turn of the Screw, Deborah Kerr is outstanding as Miss Giddens, a new governess to two orphaned children who reside in a remote mansion in Victorian England. Clayton employs eerie lighting, disorienting sound design and haunting camerawork to terrifying effect in this psychologically rich, gothic take on the haunted house subgenre.

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