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Post by naterdawg on Feb 20, 2017 18:05:06 GMT
Nanny wasn't responsible...was she?
The Nanny is a great little suspenser from Hammer Studios, headlined by the incomparable Ms. Bette Davis in the title role. Lensed in crisp black and white, with fine performances all around, it's a superb example of Hammer's "psychological" horrors produced during that time. Davis is subdued here, quite a change from her previous role in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She's really quite believable as a family nanny who just may be malevolent. Consider her the "anti-Mary Poppins!"
Anybody else entranced by the Nanny?
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 20, 2017 18:16:37 GMT
Yup it's a classic 8/10. I'd say it's Bette's best film after Baby Jane until Burnt Offerings.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 20, 2017 18:19:44 GMT
Yup it's a classic 8/10. I'd say it's Bette's best film after Baby Jane until Burnt Offerings. I agree, but I detest Burnt Offerings...and not because of Davis. |
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 20, 2017 18:45:18 GMT
Yup it's a classic 8/10. I'd say it's Bette's best film after Baby Jane until Burnt Offerings. I agree, but I detest Burnt Offerings...and not because of Davis. Why did you detest it? |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 20, 2017 18:51:45 GMT
Though I like a younger Oliver Reed, by Burnt Offerings, he was fat, sweaty and wheezing. And he delivered all his lines in a whispery kind of way that annoyed me to no end. But the two worst performances, in my opinion, were delivered by a shrill Karen Black and that very annoying kid who get his under a falling chimney. I actually laughed as he's standing there screaming like a little girl seeing a big spider, and the chimney's falling apart on him. Guess it never occurred to the kid to just run away from the house, huh?
And the ending has always confused and even angered me. So, what happens, anyway?
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 18:52:54 GMT
I LOVE The Nanny. My mom can't stand her, so she didn't want to see it the first time Turner Classic Movies had it on their Halloween programming, but I caught part of it after she went to sleep, and I was entranced by it. At the time, didn't know who Bette Davis was, and I thought she meant the mother, Virgie, which I could totally see, she was aggravating to watch and listen to. But I got totally sucked into the premise of somebody's trying to kill you, you're a kid, you tell your parents, they don't believe you, so you're on you're own. To me it was very plausible, it was very believable.
I also read the original novel by Evelyn Piper, quite a bit different, but satisfying ending.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 20, 2017 19:26:05 GMT
Though I like a younger Oliver Reed, by Burnt Offerings, he was fat, sweaty and wheezing. And he delivered all his lines in a whispery kind of way that annoyed me to no end. But the two worst performances, in my opinion, were delivered by a shrill Karen Black and that very annoying kid who get his under a falling chimney. I actually laughed as he's standing there screaming like a little girl seeing a big spider, and the chimney's falling apart on him. Guess it never occurred to the kid to just run away from the house, huh? And the ending has always confused and even angered me. So, what happens, anyway? It is explained better in the book. Pretty much Karen Black in the novel screams out to join the family that own the house while Oliver Reed's character dies at the side of the pool and the kid drowns while Karen Black becomes the old woman. In short the family lure families out to the house and the female becomes the body for the new mother who has made a sort of deal with the devil or something to pretty much live forever. But it only works for a short while and they need to find a new body and the house starts to fall apart as it feeds on people's pain. |
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Post by fangirl1975 on Feb 20, 2017 19:49:52 GMT
I caught it on Turner Classic movies during the 2015 Halloween season. I liked it a lot because I'm a fan of Hammer Films and Bette Davis.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 22, 2017 15:27:14 GMT
Nanny wasn't responsible...was she? The Nanny is a great little suspenser from Hammer Studios, headlined by the incomparable Ms. Bette Davis in the title role. Lensed in crisp black and white, with fine performances all around, it's a superb example of Hammer's "psychological" horrors produced during that time. Davis is subdued here, quite a change from her previous role in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She's really quite believable as a family nanny who just may be malevolent. Consider her the "anti-Mary Poppins!" Anybody else entranced by the Nanny?  ?  Your taste in horror/suspense/thrillers appears to be the same as mine. Love this film, and thought Davis was marvelous as the professionally committed and confused nanny. And we have sweet little Pamela Franklin in it, to boot! She was in a few horror films, the most scandalous being The Legend of Hell House. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 15:34:00 GMT
One of Hammers' finest black & white psychological horror films. Davis is great in it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 15:36:36 GMT
Yup it's a classic 8/10. I'd say it's Bette's best film after Baby Jane until Burnt Offerings.
One of the best things about "Burnt Offerings" is character actor Anthony James as the worlds' creepiest chauffeur.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 22, 2017 16:10:47 GMT
Yup it's a classic 8/10. I'd say it's Bette's best film after Baby Jane until Burnt Offerings.
One of the best things about "Burnt Offerings" is character actor Anthony James as the worlds' creepiest chauffeur.
Indeed he was marvellous. |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 22, 2017 17:00:43 GMT
Nanny wasn't responsible...was she? The Nanny is a great little suspenser from Hammer Studios, headlined by the incomparable Ms. Bette Davis in the title role. Lensed in crisp black and white, with fine performances all around, it's a superb example of Hammer's "psychological" horrors produced during that time. Davis is subdued here, quite a change from her previous role in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She's really quite believable as a family nanny who just may be malevolent. Consider her the "anti-Mary Poppins!" Anybody else entranced by the Nanny? Haha! Maybe we're "socks" of one another! I'm very familiar with Pamela Franklin and used to have a big crush on her as a kid...not because of her horror work, but because of a Flipper movie! |
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 22, 2017 17:05:16 GMT
Are you me?? Your taste in horror/suspense/thrillers appears to be the same as mine. Love this film, and thought Davis was marvelous as the professionally committed and confused nanny. And we have sweet little Pamela Franklin in it, to boot! She was in a few horror films, the most scandalous being The Legend of Hell House. Haha! Maybe we're "socks" of one another! I'm very familiar with Pamela Franklin and used to have a big crush on her as a kid...not because of her horror work, but because of a Flipper movie! |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 22, 2017 17:06:49 GMT
Haha! Maybe we're "socks" of one another! I'm very familiar with Pamela Franklin and used to have a big crush on her as a kid...not because of her horror work, but because of a Flipper movie! Yes, a truly gifted performer. She worked for Disney a bit in the 60s, and I loved her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Her confrontation with Miss Brodie in the end is an amazing piece of acting. Did you see her in "Food of the Gods?" |
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 22, 2017 17:09:18 GMT
I became aware of her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", and have been a fan ever since. I rediscovered her in prior films, from when she was quite young. She was a fine actress. Yes, a truly gifted performer. She worked for Disney a bit in the 60s, and I loved her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Her confrontation with Miss Brodie in the end is an amazing piece of acting. Did you see her in "Food of the Gods?"
Yes, I saw Food of the Gods, and she was the ONLY redeeming thing about it! [laugh] |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 22, 2017 17:12:23 GMT
Yes, a truly gifted performer. She worked for Disney a bit in the 60s, and I loved her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Her confrontation with Miss Brodie in the end is an amazing piece of acting. Did you see her in "Food of the Gods?"
Yes, I saw Food of the Gods, and she was the ONLY redeeming thing about it! [laugh] That's true about the confrontation. She really admired Miss Brodie, I think. Looking back, I remember my mother bringing us to see "The Lion," starring William Holden. Pamela was in that, too. Must've been somewhere around the time of The Innocents. Ring any bells? |
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 22, 2017 17:15:34 GMT
Not only the confrontation, but the aftermath, and you can see she's second-guessing herself.
Yes, I saw Food of the Gods, and she was the ONLY redeeming thing about it! [laugh] That's true about the confrontation. She really admired Miss Brodie, I think. Looking back, I remember my mother bringing us to see "The Lion," starring William Holden. Pamela was in that, too. Must've been somewhere around the time of The Innocents. Ring any bells? |
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Post by johanwow on Feb 22, 2017 21:09:17 GMT
Nanny wasn't responsible...was she? The Nanny is a great little suspenser from Hammer Studios, headlined by the incomparable Ms. Bette Davis in the title role. Lensed in crisp black and white, with fine performances all around, it's a superb example of Hammer's "psychological" horrors produced during that time. Davis is subdued here, quite a change from her previous role in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She's really quite believable as a family nanny who just may be malevolent. Consider her the "anti-Mary Poppins!" Anybody else entranced by the Nanny? Surely Bette Davis is one of my favorite actresses. She is so great at playing wacko characters. Other great performances of her in horror are "Baby Jane" and "Hush hush Sweet Charlotte". I do like Burnt Offerings though but Davis only has a small role there. The novel was the inspiration for King's The Shining. And I do see we have a lot of similar movies we love  |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 22, 2017 21:19:09 GMT
Nanny wasn't responsible...was she? The Nanny is a great little suspenser from Hammer Studios, headlined by the incomparable Ms. Bette Davis in the title role. Lensed in crisp black and white, with fine performances all around, it's a superb example of Hammer's "psychological" horrors produced during that time. Davis is subdued here, quite a change from her previous role in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She's really quite believable as a family nanny who just may be malevolent. Consider her the "anti-Mary Poppins!" Anybody else entranced by the Nanny? Surely Bette Davis is one of my favorite actresses. She is so great at playing wacko characters. Other great performances of her in horror are "Baby Jane" and "Hush hush Sweet Charlotte". I do like Burnt Offerings though but Davis only has a small role there. The novel was the inspiration for King's The Shining. And I do see we have a lot of similar movies we love What did you think of The Anniversary (1968) from Hammer? |
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