The innocents [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Twentieth Century-Fox presents a CinemaScope picture ; Jack Clayton's production of ; screenplay by William Archibald and Truman Capote ; produced and directed by Jack Clayton.
Format:
[videorecording (Blu-ray)] /
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert
Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Clytie Jessop, Isla Cameron. 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.
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).
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