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Nice effects though.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This is a British film which stars Bette Davis as a nanny for a family living in London in which a young boy has been sent away for supposedly killing his sister. The boy is due to be released after two years and return to his family home and under Ms Davis' supervision.The boy vehemently protests his innocence and insists that instead it was the nanny who committed the terrible deed. Is he right? Or is the nanny indeed guilty?There's already the almost unspeakable taboo of a child killing another child within this film which gives it a grittiness right from the get go. The household in question is steeped in Gothic tension even though it is in fact light and airy. No Baby Jane mansion here.There's also the stifling formality of English life at this time. There are so many manners and formalities at play that are overwhelmingly suffocating and claustrophobic. Within the film there is also a delicious generation gap which underlines this and presents a tangible 'Old vs new' scenario. The boy in question, Joey forges a friendship with a 14 year old girl who lives in the same building. She dresses like a hip 60s girl, all white lipstick and black eyeliner. When we see within her bedroom Joey gazes up at a Beatles mobile she has hanging from the ceiling and at one point we see her reclining on her bed reading a copy of the girls magazine Jackie which has a pin up of Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones on its back cover. Beautifully acted (especially Ms Davis of course whose character has a pair of the ugliest eyebrows ever captured on film) and elegantly directed, this is one of Hammer's finest films.Of course this would only have been made with Ms Davis if Hollywood wasn't casting the very best stars of yesteryear anymore. Every cloud has a silver lining. What was Hollywood's loss was very much Hammer's gain.

Some years ago i allowed my two children aged 11 and 13, to watch this with me. No regrets, my daughters loved it, and we had lots to talk about it afterwards. When i saw this very creepy work in the early 1970's it reminded me of a 1960's world. Children were not believed when adults disputed their versions of events. Viewing this film without knowing the story is probably a good idea, rather than reading the very trustworthy reviews. Remember the best 10 Hollywood horror films, you ever saw, then switch off the lights, the central heating, the phone, and watch this alone...yes very very alone......with a very very sober head.

The story twists, acting, and direction make a difference in this superior entry among Hammer Studios' series of black & white psychological thrillers. Bette Davis plays the titular character, working for a family that includes an often absent father, Bill (James Villiers), an unstable mother, Virginia (Wendy Craig), and a bratty son, Joey (William Dix). Joey's spent some time away and is just now returning home. For whatever reason, he *really* doesn't like the nanny, and makes this quite clear. It's got something to do with the death of Joey's kid sister Susy (Angharad Aubrey).Hammer veteran Jimmy Sangster scripted, from the novel by Evelyn Piper, and also produced. Seth Holt directs with a sure hand. Davis does some wonderfully understated work, while young Dix delivers an engaging performance. As this story plays out and the revelations occur, one realizes that both the Nanny and Joey can be considered sympathetic characters. In fact, all of the characters command ones' attention, with Pamela Franklin doing well as a neighbour who becomes Joey's confidante. And Jill Bennett is superb as the weary Aunt Pen, who has to be careful not to exert herself or get excited due to a weak heart. Jack Watling, Maurice Denham, and Alfred Burke are excellent in support.Richard Rodney Bennett composed the affecting music score; Harry Waxman did the crisp b&w cinematography. The film is very well made and the story very well told.Eight out of 10.

This is a rather oddly presented story with the common theme of something awry with the nanny....or butler or....anyone who you think you can trust.Suspense films like this are excellent in that one really can guess what is to happen next, and the characters and their behavior is quite mercurial.Wendy Craig , (who later starred in comedies such as "Butterflies" on NY station PBS) is good here as the mother of young Joey Fane, a troubled child with whom no one seems to know what to do with. Or is that really the case?. There is a Hitchcockian element to this story in that the black and white cinematography is slightly foreboding, little Joey's butter cream cake (to welcome him home after the hospital) looks inviting, but is it poison?.Jill Bennett who has been in other films of this genre as the narcissistic aunt Virgie, who feels she is up to the task of minding Joey until odd occurrences begin to shake her resolve.Ms. Davis as the nanny has a secret past, which is not divulged other than when we see the squalor in which her own daughter had lived. Her expressions are sublime, then jaw dropping. She acts with expression, her movements and beats are the mark of her talent. She does not need to vocalize what is percolating internally. A gem here worth seeing for Davis alone. 9/10.