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1961 (DVD: Aug 2010)

B&W

Subtitles: Optional for the hard-of-hearing

Published/distributed by BFI

ISBN/EAN: 5035673010327

Ratio 2.35:1 Cinemascope Runtime: 100 mins

Price: £19.99
(Including VAT at 20%)

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Innocents, The: Blu-ray

Clayton, Jack

In the performance of her career Deborah Kerr plays Miss Giddens, an emotionally repressed vicar's daughter, who becomes the guardian of two, apparently angelic, orphans at a secluded stately home. When the apparitions of a late governess and her sadistic lover manifest themselves to Miss Giddens she determines to save her young charges from the their ghostly evil. But just who is corrupting whom? Jack Clayton's superbly haunting The Innocents retains the ambiguity of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw and Freddie Francis' atmospheric and inventive photography keeps us guessing until the film's tragic conclusion.

Please be aware that the playback of this Blu-ray disc is problematic on the following players:

LG BD360
Oppo BD80
Sony 370
Sony 470
Sony 373
Philips BD3000
Philips BDP7500

Extras
* Full-feature commentary by Professor Christopher Frayling
* Video introduction (Caroline Millar, 2006, 26 minutes): Christopher Frayling, on the location at Sheffield Park house - where The Innocents was shot - on the making of the film.
* The Bespoke Overcoat (Jack Clayton, 1955, 37 minutes)
* Naples is a Battlefield (Jack Clayton, 1944, 14 minutes)
* Original US trailer ( 3 minutes)
* Designed by Motley (2010, 14 minutes); Gallery of costume designs for The Innocents by prolific British designers Motley. With introduction and audio captions by film historian Catherine Surowiec.
* Illustrated booklet with sleevenote essay by The League of Gentleman's Jeremy Dyson, an on-set report, new director biography and more.

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