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The Innocents (1961)

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Actors: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin

Director: Jack Clayton

Format: Black & White, Dolby, HiFi Sound, PAL, Widescreen

Region: Region 2 (UK & Europe)

Number of Discs: 1

Classification: 12

Studio: BFI DVD

DVD Release Date: 23 Aug 2010

Run Time: 96 minutes

'The best ghost movie I've ever seen'
~ Pauline Kael ~

Jack Clayton's celebrated screen adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a brilliant exercise in psychological horror. Impressionable and repressed governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) agrees to tutor two orphaned children, Miles and Flora. On arrival at Bly House (Sheffield Park House, near Uckfield, Sussex), she becomes convinced that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of former governess Miss Jessel and her Heathcliffe-like lover Quint (Peter Wyngarde), who both met with mysterious deaths.

Deborah Kerr, The Innocents (1961)

The film's sinister atmosphere is carefully created - not through shock tactics, but through its cinematography, soundtrack, and decor: Freddie Francis' beautiful CinemaScope photography, with its eerily indistinct long shots and mysterious manifestations at the edges of the frame; an evocative and spooky soundtrack; and the grand yet decaying Bly House.

Deborah Kerr gives the performance of her career and makes The Innocents an intensely unsettling experience. Are the ghosts the products of Miss Giddens' fevered imagination and emotional immaturity, or a displacement of her shock at the sexually precocious behaviour of ten-year-old Miles? Is she the protector or the corrupter?

The Deborah Kerr kiss remains one of the most disturbing moments in cinema history

Now widely considered to be one of the greatest of all ghost stories on film, The Innocents continues to inspire today's 'haunted house' movies, most notably The Others (Alejandro Amenbar, 2001).

Pamela Franklin, The Innocents (1961)

12 Certificate

Runtime: 96 mins

The Innocents (1961)

EXTRA FEATURES

Filmed introduction and commentary with Professor Christopher Frayling

Booklet including film notes by Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen)

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Most of the exterior shots for the film were filemd at Sheffield Park Garden near Uckfield, Sussex. The gardens are now owned by the NT though on my visit in November 2010 I found out that Sheffield Park House is privately owned and has been split into 5 luxurious flats.

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More images from Sheffield Park Garden can be found here

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