I watched this on TV in 1980 when I was 15. The scene with the back of the lady swishing past on the corridor. I turned it off panic stricken. At school the next day many of my classmates also turned it ff at the same point! Watched it when I was an adult and stuck it out to the end. Fabulous film.

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.  The Turn of the Screw is a gothic horror novella by Henry James about a young, inexperienced governess at an isolated country estate who becomes convinced that the two children she cares for are being corrupted by the ghosts of former servants. The story is famous for its ambiguity, leaving readers to question whether the supernatural events are real or a product of the governess's psychological state, innocence, corruption, and anxiety.

I saw this over 50 years ago late night on TV with my grandma and two brothers. One of my favorite gothic thrillers/films. Thanks for posting this

When Miles whispers "welcome, Lord" out the window, i'd have been out of there.

What a fantastic movie, I love it! Deborah Kerr and the kids were amazing. The settings and costumes were beautiful! Thanks for uploading it.

THANK YOU so much for this movie. Haven't watched yet but from the brief peep i saw,the quality is perfect so far. Thanks again!

I absolutely love the housekeeper!!

One of the best of that genre!

Some trivia from IMDb: producer and director Jack Clayton didn’t want the children exposed to the darker themes of the story so they never saw the screenplay in its entirety. The children were given their pages the day  before they were to be filmed. Which makes the kids acting all the more impressive for such short notice, and not having the context of the whole film in mind when performing. I wonder what the young actors thought of the film upon watching it in its entirety, if they ever did. 🤔

Sometimes no matter how beautiful and how much a place is worth if you have a bad feeling about a place, it’s not worth it.

I have always thought this the scariest film ever, since I saw it at home on TV some time in the early 1970s - the face of Quint coming up to her at the window, the distant figure of Miss Jessel amongst the bullrushes, shocked me to the core. Yet I have played it for people who didn't get it at all, who laughed at Kerr's exquisite acting and sneered at the ghost appearances. Now I keep it to myself but it is wonderful to see so many others here who are captivated by the film too.

Those children were amazing actors.

It's 2026, I never knew of this film, watching it for the first time.

Pamela Franklin as Flora owns a rare bookstore in Los Angeles with her husband and sons. She retired as an actress over 40 years ago.
She was such a fine actress, in this film, as well as The Prime of Miss Jean Brody and even the cult classics, Satan's School for Girls and The Legend of Hell House

I wonder, if the guys running the Oscar's have seen gems like these.

7 minutes in and I’m already hooked. Love these old films.

At the time:. 1961 Dan Curtis was producing the television series “Peyton Place”….I would bet you he saw this film and it gave him the idea for “Dark Shadows”.  It’s identical in so many parts.  This house is the prototype for Collinwood.   There’s a stately pile in Newport called Seacrest or Seacliff. It’s a magnificent house still standing on Bellevue Avenue and it was used as the frontis piece for the TV show, Dark Shadows..

They definitely don't make horror films like this classic today! Too bad!

When this opened, Francois Truffaut came up to Jack Clayton in a restaurant to say "This is the most beautiful English film made since Hitchcock went to America.  Clayton was very touched by this, as the reviews were generally complimentary but ho-hum.   That wonderful Freddie Francis deep focus was also used in the opening credits of The Miracle Worker.

I saw this film in a movie theater down town.    I was 13 and I went on my own to see it.   A lot of it was lost on me at that age.
But I have seen it several times since and it is indeed creepy. A classic ghost story.  Deborah Kerr  is wonderful in this role.