The Innocents (1961 film)
The Innocents is a 1961 British psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins.
Based on the novella" The Turn of the Screw" by the American novelist Henry James, the screenplay was adapted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, who used Archibald's own stage play—also titled" The Innocents" —as a primary source text.
It s 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.
Archibald's original screenplay for" The Innocents" was based on the premise that the paranormal events depicted were legitimate.
Displeased with Archibald's take on the material, director Jack Clayton appointed American writer Truman Capote to rework the script.
Capote's rewrites incorporated psychological themes, resulting in a final work that suggests other alternatives to the plot.
Filming took place partly on location at the Gothic mansion of Sheffield Park in Sussex, with additional shoots occurring at Shepperton Studios in Surrey.
Shot in CinemaScope," The Innocents" incorporated bold minimal lighting as well as deep focus, employed by cinematographer Freddie Francis to achieve a distinctive—and sometimes claustrophobic—atmosphere.
The film also pioneered the use of synthesised electronic sound created by Daphne Oram.
" The Innocents" received international distribution from the American film studio 20th Century Fox, and received its London premiere on 24 November 1961.
It was released in the United States the following month on 15 December in Los Angeles and Christmas Day in New York City.
The psychological underpinnings of the film's screenplay have resulted in it being the subject of numerous critical and scholarly essays, particularly in the area of film theory.
Of the various film adaptations of James's work," The Innocents" has received the most critical debate.
It was selected by" The Guardian" as one of the 25 best horror films ever made.
Ian Barry (director)
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Jack Clayton
Jack Clayton (1 March 1921 – 26 February 1995) was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.
Starting out as a teenage studio "tea boy" in 1935, Clayton worked his way up through British film industry in a career that spanned nearly sixty years.
He rapidly rose through a series of increasingly important roles in British film production, before shooting to international prominence as a director with his Oscar-winning feature film debut, the drama "Room at the Top" (1959); this was followed by the much-lauded horror film "The Innocents" (1961), adapted from Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw".
Clayton looked set for a brilliant future, and he was highly regarded by peers and critics alike, but a number of overlapping factors hampered his career.
He was a notably 'choosy' director, who by his own admission "never made a film I didn't want to make", and he repeatedly turned down films (including "Alien") that became huge hits for other directors.
But he was also dogged by bad luck and bad timing - the Hollywood studios labelled him as 'difficult', and studio politics quashed a string of planned films in the 1970s, which were either taken out of his hands, or cancelled in the final stages of preparation.
In 1977, he suffered a double blow - his current film was cancelled just two weeks before shooting was due to begin, and a few months later he suffered a serious stroke which robbed him of the ability to speak, and put his career on hold for five years.
Despite his relatively small "oeuvre", the films of Jack Clayton continue to be appreciated, and both they and their director have been widely admired and praised by leading film critics like Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert, and by film industry peers including Harold Pinter, Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, François Truffaut, Tennessee Williams and Steven Spielberg.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Howard W. Koch
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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom is a 1985 Argentine- American sword and sorcery film written by Ed Naha and directed by Héctor Olivera.
It stars Bo Svenson as Kor the Conqueror, Vidal Peterson as Simon, and Thom Christopher as Shurka.
The film is an entry in a series of nine films that Roger Corman produced in Argentina during the 1980s; the first one being" Deathstalker".
Héctor Olivera (film director)
Héctor Olivera( born 5 April 1931) is an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter.
Olivera worked mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but also has directed or contributed to several films made for the United States market.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II is a 1989 American sword and sorcery film written and directed by Charles B. Griffith and starring David Carradine, Mel Welles and Lana Clarkson.
It was Griffith's last feature film credit and is a sequel to the Argentine- American cult film" Wizards of the Lost Kingdom"( 1985).
The film includes stock footage of characters and scenes from" Barbarian Queen"( which starred Clarkson) and" The Warrior and the Sorceress"( which starred Carradine), both of which were also a coproduction between Argentina and United States.
Hanro Smitsman
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Peter Levin
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Question: Are director of film Wizards of the Lost Kingdom and director of film The Innocents (1961 film) both from the same country?
Answer: no