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Innocents, The (1961) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Innocents, The (1961) a score of 2.8663 out of 4

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SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review

Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) has been called the first Freudian ghost story and remains a literary classic. It is a story that hovers in a delicate state of ambiguity about whether the ghosts are real or ones in which the...read the complete Innocents, The (1961) review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review

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filmcritic.com

Based on Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, this creepy but ultimately perplexing thriller was one of the first films designed to scare you without showing, say, severed limbs and nonstop gore....read the complete Innocents, The (1961) review at filmcritic.com

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Britmovie

Jack Clayton served as both producer and director on The Innocents, working closely with cinematographer Freddie Francis....read the complete Innocents, The (1961) review at Britmovie