This film is based on Henry James' novel "The Screws Are Tightening". At the end of the 19th century, the beautiful teacher Miss Giddens (played by Deborah Kerr) came to the country estate to take care of her employer’s niece Flora (played by Pamela Franklin) and her nephew Myers (played by Pamela Franklin) Martin Stephens (played by Martin Stephens). Soon, Miss Giddens found that she often saw strange images, as if the house was entangled by ghosts, and the children were also possessed by the devil, saying or making overly mature and strange words or actions. Mrs. Gross (Megs Jenkins), the housekeeper, revealed to her that all this may be related to the underground romance of the late former tutor and general manager. Miss Giddens desperately tried to rescue the children from the control of the devil, but is it possible that the ghosts she saw were just her own hallucinations?
The Innocents movie plot
2022-01-12 08:01
Extended Reading
-
Theo 2022-01-12 08:01:29
The chilling performance, the intense rivalry, the Gothic setting, and the ambiguous emotional entanglements. . . Only in this way is it worthy of the name "The Screws Are Tightening". . .
-
Jimmy 2022-04-19 09:02:37
'Do you have an imagination? Facts are hard to understand unless you are imaginative. 'Unfortunately, you found someone with an unconventional imagination
-
Miss Giddens: We must try to learn what it is these horrors want. Think, Mrs. Grose. The answer must lie in the past. Were Quint and Miss Jessel in love? They were in love, weren't they?
Mrs. Grose: Love? Oh, I suppose that's what she called it. But it was more like a sickness. A fever that leaves the body burned out and dry. There was no cruelty she wouldn't suffer. If he struck her - oh, yes, and I've seen him knock her to the floor - she'd look at him as though she wanted the weight of his hand. No pride, no shame. Crawl to him on her hands and knees, she would. And him laughing at her. Such a savage laugh he had. Oh, it hurts me to remember. Bad she was, but no woman could have suffered more.
-
Mrs. Grose: [referring to Peter Quint and Miss Jessel's abusive relationship] A person ought to keep quiet about it.
Miss Giddens: You must tell me.
Mrs. Grose: Oh, miss, there's things I've seen I... I'm ashamed to say.
Miss Giddens: Go on.
Mrs. Grose: Rooms... used by daylight... as though they were dark woods.
Miss Giddens: They didn't care that you saw them? And the children?
Mrs. Grose: I can't say, miss. I... I don't know what the children saw. But they used to follow Quint and Miss Jessel, trailing along behind, hand in hand, whispering. There was too much whispering in this house, miss.
Miss Giddens: Oh, yes, I can imagine. Yes, I can imagine what sort of things they whispered about. Quint, Miles. I can hear them together.
Mrs. Grose: But there was nothing wrong in Master Miles wanting to be with Quint. Quint taught him to ride and took him walking. The poor lad needed someone to...
Miss Giddens: To corrupt him?
Mrs. Grose: But Master Miles is a good boy, miss. There's nothing wicked in him.
Miss Giddens: Unless he's deceiving us. Unless they're both deceiving us. The innocents.
Mrs. Grose: Innocents they are, miss. It's not fair. You have no right to accuse them of...
Miss Giddens: Oh, forgive me, Mrs. Grose. I'm not accusing. I'm just trying to put it together, to understand. Tell me, were the children happy?
Mrs. Grose: Oh, they seemed to be. The same as now. But sometimes I used to wonder if they really cared for them, those two... or if they weren't just using them.
Miss Giddens: Using them?
Mrs. Grose: Yes, of course they were... and still are.