The Innocents
1961
· Movie
· 100 min
B
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #643
- IMDb #776
- Google retired #3109
- Rotten Tomatoes #512
- Metacritic #330
- Letterboxd #363
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #441
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1044
- Metacritic Critics #258
- Metacritic Audience #815
- Criticker #238
- Kinopoisk #2261
- AlloCiné #289
- Trakt #1671
Every rating
70–95
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95. Critics average 92, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young governess is hired to care for two orphaned children at a remote and sprawling estate. She begins to sense a sinister presence in the house and gradually becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and the children are under the malevolent influence of the previous governess and her lover.
Details
- Director
- Jack Clayton
- Writers
- Truman Capote, William Archibald
- Based on
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Studio
- Achilles, 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 24 November 1961
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $430.0K
- Box office
- $1.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1961 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |