The Innocents (1961)
Directed by Jack Clayton
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
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No less an artist than Truman Capote ("Breakfast at Tiffany's," "In Cold Blood") cowrote the screenplay with William Archibald ("I Confess") and got additional scenes from John Mortimer ("The Running Man," "Tea With Mussolini").
Georges Auric ("La Belle et la bete," "Orphee," "Roman Holiday," "Bonjour tristesse") contributed the atmospheric musical score.
Jack Clayton, the film's producer and director, had already made such notable movies as "Moulin Rouge," "Beat the Devil," "Moby Dick," and "Room at the Top," and he would go on to do "The Great Gatsby."
(Stephens himself had just appeared in Village of the Damned.)
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The picture predicts the mood of the decade just beginning; a marvellous companion to the eruption of the 1960s (Psycho, Peeping Tom, Eyes Without a Face, Jigoku,et al); an even better bookend to the end-of-the-decade's Rosemary's Baby, featuring another innocent pulled into something old and familiar.
The picture predicts the mood of the decade just beginning; a marvellous companion to the eruption of the 1960s (Psycho, Peeping Tom, Eyes Without a Face, Jigoku,et al); an even better bookend to the end-of-the-decade's Rosemary's Baby, featuring another innocent pulled into something old and familiar.
Jack Clayton, the film's producer and director, had already made such notable movies as "Moulin Rouge," "Beat the Devil," "Moby Dick," and "Room at the Top," and he would go on to do "The Great Gatsby."
For Mr. Clayton, the British director who first clicked with "Room at the Top," has done a fine job of infusing this drama with spooky atmosphere and a certain sense of the weird and supernatural that should clobber the gullible.