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The Whisperers

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Original title

The Whisperers

Year

1967

Running time

105 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Bryan Forbes

Screenwriter

Bryan Forbes. Novel: Robert Nicolson

Cast

Music

John Barry

Cinematography

Gerry Turpin (B&W)

Producer

Seven Pines

Genre

Drama | Free Cinema. Old Age / Elderly. Poverty

Synopsis

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen all coiled up in a silent radio. The old lady is on to all their tricks, and she tells them so repeatedly. She reports them regularly to the police who scoff at her behind her back. The whisperers, however, are only part of her fantasy life. She imagines also that she is a daughter of aristocracy, an heiress waiting for her money to arrive so that she can pay back the nice gentleman at the Welfare Board. Her routine is shattered irrevocably by the return of her thieving son and vagrant husband, a brief fling with stolen money ending dismally in the gutter where the poor prey on the poor.

Awards: 1967: Academy Awards: Nominee to Best Actress (Edith Evans)

1967: Golden Globes: Best Actress - Drama (Evans). Nominated for Samuel Goldwyn Award

1967: BAFTA Awards: Best Actress (Edith Evans) and Best Cinematograph (B&W)

1967: Berlin: Silver Bear - Best Actress (Evans), OCIC, Interfilm (Honorable Mention)

1967: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actress (Evans)

1967: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Actress.

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The Whisperers

1967

Bryan Forbes

6.9

(87)