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).
Additional Information
| Series | Criterion collection ; 727. |
| Subjects |
James, Henry,
-- 1843-1916
-- Film adaptations.
Governesses -- Drama. Orphans -- Drama. Supernatural -- Drama. Haunted house films. Ghost films. Horror films. Film adaptations. Fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Publisher | [Irvington, N.Y.] :The Criterion Collection,2014 |
| Edition | Blu-ray special edition, Widescreen. |
| Other Titles | Turn of the screw. |
| Contributors |
Clayton, Jack,
1921-1995, film producer, film director. Archibald, William, screenwriter. Capote, Truman, 1924-1984, screenwriter. Fennell, Albert, 1920-1988, film producer. Kerr, Deborah, 1921-2007, actor. Wyngarde, Peter, 1927?-2018 actor. Jenkins, Megs, 1917-1998, actor. Redgrave, Michael, actor. Stephens, Martin, 1948- actor. Franklin, Pamela, actor. Jessop, Clytie, actor. Cameron, Isla, actor. Mortimer, John, 1923-2009, screenwriter. Auric, Georges, 1899-1983, composer. Williamson, Lambert, conductor. Dehn, Paul, 1912-1976, lyricist. James, Peter, 1924-1997, set designer. Clark, James, 1931-2016, film editor. Francis, Freddie, 1917-2007, director of photography. Shingleton, Wilfrid, art director. Frayling, Christopher, commentator. Bailey, John, 1942 August 10- interviewee (expression) Francis, Pamela Mann, 1927- interviewee (expression) McDonagh, Maitland, writer of supplementary textual content. James, Henry, 1843-1916. Turn of the screw. Motley (Organization), costume designer. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, presenter, production company. Cinemascope (Firm), production company. Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor. |
| Participants/Performers |
Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Clytie Jessop, Isla Cameron. |
| Other Contributors |
Additional scenes & dialogue by John Mortimer ; music composed by Georges Auric ; conducted by W. Lambert Williamson ; lyric "O Willow Waly" by Paul Dehn ; set dresser, Peter James ; editor, James Clark ; costumes designed by Motley ; director of photography, Freddie Francis ; art director, Wilfrid Shingleton ; executive producer, Albert Fennell. |
| Language |
English English dialogue with optional English captions. |
| Notes |
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. |
| System Details |
Blu-ray ; region A ; widescreen (2.35:1, 16x9) presentation ; monaural ; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert. |
| ISBN | 9781604658996 1604658991 |
| Other | Classic View |