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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...

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Uniform Title:Innocents (Motion picture : 1961)
Corporate Author: Motley (Organization) (Costume designer)
Other Authors: Archibald, William (Screenwriter), Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 (Screenwriter), Kerr, Deborah, 1921-2007 (Actor), Wyngarde, Peter, 1927?-2018 (Actor), Jenkins, Megs, 1917-1998 (Actor), Redgrave, Michael (Actor), Stephens, Martin, 1948- (Actor), Franklin, Pamela (Actor), Jessop, Clytie (Actor), Cameron, Isla (Actor), Mortimer, John, 1923-2009 (Screenwriter), Auric, Georges, 1899-1983 (composer (expression)), Williamson, Lambert (Conductor), Dehn, Paul, 1912-1976 (Lyricist), James, Peter, 1924-1997 (Set designer), Clark, James, 1931-2016 (Film editor), Francis, Freddie, 1917-2007 (director of photography.), Frayling, Christopher (Commentator), Bailey, John, 1942 August 10- (interviewee (expression)), Francis, Pamela Mann, 1927- (interviewee (expression)), James, Henry, 1843-1916
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:English
Language Notes:English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Edition:Blu-ray special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 727.
Subjects:
Governesses > Drama.
Orphans > Drama.
Supernatural > Drama.
James, Henry, > 1843-1916.
Governesses.
Orphans.
Supernatural.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Ghost films.
Haunted house films.
Horror films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary: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).
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.
Based on the story "The turn of the screw" by Henry James.
Special features: Christopher Frayling introduction (by cultural historian); Commentary (features film scholar Christopher Frayling); John Bailey on Freddie Francis (new interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Freddie Francis and the look of the film); Between horror, fear, and beauty (new piece, cinematographer Freddie Francis, editor Jim Clark, and script supervisor Pamela Mann Francis discuss the making of the film); Trailer. Insert features an essay by critic Maitland McDonagh.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Format:Blu-ray ; region A ; widescreen (2.35:1, 16x9) presentation ; monaural ; requires Blu-ray player.
Production Credits:Additional scenes & dialogue by John Mortimer ; music composed by Georges Auric ; conducted by W. Lambert Williamson ; lyric "O Willow Waly" by Paul Dehn ; set dresser, Peter James ; editor, James Clark ; costumes designed by Motley ; director of photography, Freddie Francis ; art director, Wilfrid Shingleton ; executive producer, Albert Fennell.
ISBN:9781604658996
1604658991