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The Innocents
Why this pick
Its immaculate black-and-white images and isolated country house turn uncertainty into creeping dread, with a vulnerable woman’s perceptions kept tantalisingly unsettled.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1961 1h 21m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Nanny
Why this pick
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Paranoiac
Why this pick
This stylish British Gothic thriller shares the Riviera estate film’s atmosphere of inherited wealth, damaged families, and uneasy uncertainty over whom to trust.
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Nightmare
Why this pick
A young woman haunted by traumatic visions is drawn into a polished web of fear and deception, delivered with the same brisk, twist-conscious British suspense sensibility.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After the suicide of her best friend, wheelchair-bound heiress Penny Appleby (Susan Strasberg) arrives at her estranged father's estate on the French Riviera. Her stepmother (Ann Todd), whom Penny has only just met, informs her that the father has been called away on business. She cannot say when he will return or why he left when he was expecting Penny's arrival.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ronald Lewis
Robert
Ann Todd
Jane Appleby
Leonard Sachs
Mr. Spratt
Anne Blake
Marie the Maid
Fred Johnson
Father
Susan Strasberg
Penny Appleby
Christopher Lee
Doctor Pierre Gerrard
John Serret
Inspector Legrand