Sangster a Seven Arts-Hammer Production, presented by 20th Century-fox. This is a psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seats, waiting for the final denoument. THE NANNY, screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, from the novel by Evelyn Piper directed by Seth Holt produced by Mr. The other film is The Nanny, with Bette Davis in top form as the nanny. Miss Davis and her small, mortal enemy, Master Dix, have seen to that. Bette Davis Young & Older: From Jezebel to The Nanny + Centennial Tribute Images Andre Soares 13 years ago Bette Davis young and older is the subject of a Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences centennial tribute. 1965 film starring Bette Davis as an English nanny whose sense of reality is clouded due to some deep dark secret in her past.
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Sangster sensibly cushions a stark climax with a meaningful, even moving flashback."The Nanny" may be obvious, but it is never dull. Video of The Nanny - FULL MOVIE for fans of Bette Davis. Unfortunately, however, the scenes are stacked rather than blended, so that the picture becomes bony and a bit pretentious. Sangster charts a straight, unswerving story line, true, and the suspense builds steadily. And an uncredited moppet, as the baby sister, is adorable.Mr.
And the idea of a plucky, bright lad's matching wits with a family menace is sound.Furthermore, the picture is well-acted by Wendy Craig and James Villiers, as the short-sighted parents and especially by Jill Bennett, as an earthy aunt, and Pamela Franklin, an the boy's teen-age confidante. In adapting Evelyn Piper's novel, the film's screenwriter and director, Jimmy Sangster, has dotted the premises with a viable handful of characters. Their scenes together, in a shifting game of cat and mouse, provide the spice and real merit of a film that could have been a crack-erjack.It could have been by holding fast to the youngster's viewpoint, as in that excellent oldie "The Window," now appearing on television. And in the natural, cold criticism of a 10-year-old boy named William Dix, Miss Davis-actress and nanny, both-has finally met her match. At least, it's the quietest, tightest and most lifelike Davis film in a cavalcade of gory jamborees that started with "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"This time, Miss Davis plays a proper, dowdy type, deftly managing a comfortable household, who is piercingly eyed by a youngster who thinks she has murdered his baby sister. As for parents-even if Mary Poppins herself comes a-knocking, call the F.B.I.There's this to be said for the small-scale chiller from Britain that 20th Century-Fox opened yesterday on the circuits: It almost makes the grade on its own. The kids a brat but it turns out things arent what they appear to be. The plot is the little boy is coming home from the psych hospital where hes been for 2 yrs due to the suspicious drowning of his little sister.
WITH Bette Davis loose as "The Nanny," children had better run for their little lives. Bette Davis as a nanny to a family of neurotic, overindulged, priviledged Brits.