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Ep 139 - THE INNOCENTS (1961): The Greatest Ghost Story Ever Filmed?
THE INNOCENTS (1961) d. Jack Clayton (UK)
Tonight, we're disussing The Innocents, the spellbinding 1961 screen version of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Producer/director Jack Clayton and cinematographer Freddie Francis conjure a haunting onscreen atmosphere with an eye for hypnotic, symbolic imagery, where the sunlit scenes are frequently more chilling than those set at night.
Truman Capote and William Archibald's screenplay also introduces layers of sexual frustration, repression, and hysteria which, while eliminating none of the original story's ambiguity, supply an intriguing…
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