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The Innocents is a 1961 gothic psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins. Based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by the American novelist Henry James, the screenplay was adapted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, who used Archibald's own 1950 ...
- $1.2 million (North America) (US/Canada)
- Jack Clayton
- £430,000
- Georges Auric
Summaries. A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. In Victorian England, the uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave) of orphaned niece Flora (Pamela Franklin) and nephew Miles (Martin Stephens) hires Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and ...
Based on the Henry James story "The Turn of the Screw," a psychological thriller about a woman who takes a governess job for two orphans in a Victorian home. She begins to see what she believes ...
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- Deborah Kerr
- Jack Clayton
- Twentieth Century Fox
A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James’s classic The Turn of the Screw, cowritten by Truman Capote and directed by Jack Clayton, The Innocents is a triumph of narrative economy and technical expressiveness, from its chilling sound design to the stygian depths of its widescreen cinematography by Freddie Francis.
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Innocents, The (1961) - (Original Trailer) A governess (Deborah Kerr) believes her charges possessed in the best adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents, 1961, directed by Jack Clayton.
The Innocents, British horror film, released in 1961, that is widely considered one of the best ghost stories ever filmed and the finest screen adaptation of Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw (1898). Deborah Kerr portrayed Miss Giddens, a spinster governess, hired by an affluent bachelor.
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