The Innocents. Jack Clayton, 1961.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #727, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: Implied murder of a pigeon and depicted violence to a turtle.
Details:
1) While tucking creepy little Miles into bed, Deborah Kerr finds a pet pigeon dead with a broken neck under his pillow, 1:05:15-1:15:25. Miles explains it away in an oh-so-innocent way. She reflects that it doesn’t ring true, and flashes back to the dead bird 1:15:47-1:15:53.
2) Miles throws a box turtle through a window as if it were a rock, 1:36:10.
Most people like this adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw much more than I do. The incessant cutesy brit-chat makes me fancy a lovely poop in my holiday jodhpurs ever so much.