Classic Film : Our Mother's House (1967)

I saw this for the first time last night on TCM.


I thought it was excellent, about a group of seven English children whose mother dies and they bury her in the back yard and don't tell anyone. Then their ne'er do well father (Dirk Bogarde) shows up.

It's definitely worth seeing if you in the mood for something different, if a bit disturbing.

Did anyone else see it? What did you think?

I've seen it previously and (heresy coming), I prefer it to Clayton's more heralded The Innocents. Also far superior to The Bad Seed.

I believe that I recorded it a few years ago, time for a revisit.

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

A kind of urban Lord of the Flies, complete with a "mystic" who channels her dead mother when the children need advice.

Like the young Jodie Foster, Pamela Franklin had that rare maturity for her age that made her performances so effective.

Creepy, with some twists you don't see coming. The final haunting scene closes the movie but not the unsettling question of what comes next.


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Like the young Jodie Foster, Pamela Franklin had that rare maturity for her age that made her performances so effective.

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Speaking of Jodie Foster, she has her own entry in this sub-genre: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

I love this little film: atmosphere, cinematography, story And Dirk Bogarde, one of my favourite British actors, playing a working-class cockney, so far away from his usual posh/army types, and he is totally credible. That is an actor. And the kids are very good too, very natural and credible. A very young pre-Oliver Mark Lester showing up, and Pamela Franklin as the leader. She was 18, but looks like 14.
In my opinion, a very much underrated and ignored little jewel of suspense.

I have wanted to see this for ages. Sadly I can only see a US import DVD on Amazon. When my current Blu-ray player packs up, I'm going to seriously consider getting an all region one. So many films I want to buy, but they are not on region 2 discs.

Pamela Franklin is a great actress. Such a shame she never became a bigger star. Love her in The Legend of Hell House and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.





Go to bed Frank or this is going to get ugly .

Region-free players (you can get them for Blu-Ray) are not that much more expensive and are well worth the money.

jj

This earned some notoriety when several people noticed the striking similarity between Georges Delerue's score and Quincy Jones' score for The Color Purple - especially since both men were nominated for Oscars the same year (Delerue for Agnes of God) and it turned out that The Color Purple had actually been temptracked with the score for Our Mother's House






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