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20/12/1968 Thriller, Horror 1h 52m
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Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then we'll get the pretty girl. We'll get her right between the curl.

Overview

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

  1. Roy Boulting

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Hayley Mills

    Susan Harper

  2. Hywel Bennett

    Martin (Georgie) Durnley

  3. Billie Whitelaw

    Joan Harper

  4. Frank Finlay

    Henry Durnley

  5. Barry Foster

    Gerry Henderson

  6. Phyllis Calvert

    Enid Durnley

  7. Salmaan Peerzada

    Shashie Kadir

  8. Christian Roberts

    Philip Harvey

  9. Gretchen Franklin

    Clarkie

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2025-02-26
**_Hayley Mills in a late 60’s psychological drama-thriller_**

A 22 years-old man (Hywel Bennett) cops a childlike personality to get close to a winsome library worker in London (Mills). He seeks to get his foot in the door of her mother’s boarding house. Havoc ensues.

“Twisted Nerve” (1968) was influenced by Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (and even borrows Bernard Herrmann for the score), but it’s more dramatic and less over-the-top. Hayley was 21 years-old during shooting and thoroughly winsome, as usual, but she needed to eat some cheeseburgers. Meanwhile Billie Whitelaw is s...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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