The Innocents
The Innocents (1961)

The Innocents

2/5
(27 votes)
7.8IMDb

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Goofs

When Ms.

Giddens goes upstairs to the bedroom, the candle varies in size between shots.

In the scene where Miles is on the horse, he rides with and without a saddle in various shots.

Miss Giddens is wearing one dress when Flora bursts in to tell them to come see Miles riding the horse.

When they run outside, Miss Giddens is wearing a different dress.

During Miss Gidden's interview with The Uncle, a clock can be heard striking the Westminster Chimes half hour.

The Uncle goes to a mantel clock checking his watch.

The mantel clock shows 10 past 11:00.

The Uncle touches the clock dial, but does not correct the time.

Awards

BAFTA Awards 1962


BAFTA Film Award
Best British Film
Best Film from any Source

Cannes Film Festival 1962


Palme d'Or

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1962


Edgar
Best Motion Picture

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Reviews

One of the original haunted house and its haunted history movies, Innocents, does an interesting difference to the later haunted house adoptions. Although the plot has become nearby a cliché in the later horror movies and it is not too hard to guess how the events turn out, the movie still feels refreshing.

During the winter of 1945, a young French intern working with a branch of the Red Cross is on a mission to care for and repatriate French survivors of the German concentration camps in Poland. A Polish nun arrives at the Red Cross hospital and begs for help.

The entire movie, you are never sure if the children are truly haunted, or if the nanny is haunted. She could be insane.

This program is good and I've read the bad reviews with an open mind. There are a few plot holes in the series but overall it was an original story, set in a beautiful place with solid acting.

Based on true events that occurred in Poland during post WW2 period, the tale of Sisters, nuns in a convent, where some of them were raped by Soviet soldiers and found themselves pregnant. So, a young French war nurse is called for help, to pull the confinements.

In London, spinsterish parson's daughter Deborah Kerr (as Miss Giddens) is hired by Michael Redgrave to be governess for his adorable orphaned niece Pamela Franklin (as Flora) and nephew Martin Stephens (as Miles). Arriving at their brooding country mansion, Ms.

Horrible, diabolical, terrible, miserable and just plain awful are all great adjectives to describe one miserable 1961 film. Having lost her 6th Oscar bid, the year before, what was Deborah Kerr thinking when she made such a terrible film?

The Innocents is a near flawless horror film of restrained terror working beautifully within the bounds of reality with the outcome in doubt until the final seconds. It is an eerie thriller suspenseful and terrifying without gore and buckets of blood to drive its point home.

This film celebrates the strength of women and sisterhood despite stark contrasts between the women's contrasting beliefs (fundamentally in religion, but can be soon to be tied to ethics and priority). Not an easy film to watch, as it is hard to imagine what hardships the sisters had to endure, but the film does not show illustrate that, it only shows the current state: conflicts and the struggle of the sisters as well as the doctor who took the risk to help.

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