--- title: 'The Innocents (1961)' type: 'film' director: 'Jack Clayton' released: '1961-11-24' runtime_minutes: 100 genres: - 'Horror' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-innocents-1961' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055018/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Innocents (1961) 1961 · 100 min · Horror · United Kingdom ## Synopsis The Innocents is a 1961 gothic psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins. Based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by the novelist Henry James, the screenplay was adapted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, who used Archibald's own 1950 stage play—also titled The Innocents—as a primary source text. Its plot follows a governess who watches over two children and comes to fear that their large estate is haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed. ## Credits - **Director:** [Jack Clayton](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-clayton) - **Producer:** [Jack Clayton](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-clayton) - **Screenplay:** [Truman Capote](https://cinepixo.com/people/truman-capote), [Henry James](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-james), [John Mortimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mortimer), [William Archibald](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-archibald) - **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Auric](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-auric) - **Director of Photography:** [Freddie Francis](https://cinepixo.com/people/freddie-francis) - **Editor:** [Jim Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-clark) ## Cast - [Peter Wyngarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-wyngarde) - [Isla Cameron](https://cinepixo.com/people/isla-cameron) - [Megs Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/megs-jenkins) - [Martin Stephens](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-stephens) - [Michael Redgrave](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-redgrave) - [Clytie Jessop](https://cinepixo.com/people/clytie-jessop) - [Deborah Kerr](https://cinepixo.com/people/deborah-kerr) - [Pamela Franklin](https://cinepixo.com/people/pamela-franklin) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-innocents-1961 Film facts: Wikidata (Q666082); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.