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Twisted Nerve

  • 7.0 /10

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Plot

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.

Cast

Hayley Mills as Susan Harper
Hayley Mills

as Susan Harper

Hywel Bennett as Martin (Georgie) Durnley
Hywel Bennett

as Martin (Georgie) Durnley

Billie Whitelaw as Joan Harper
Billie Whitelaw

as Joan Harper

Frank Finlay as Henry Durnley
Frank Finlay

as Henry Durnley

Barry Foster as Gerry Henderson
Barry Foster

as Gerry Henderson

Phyllis Calvert as Enid Durnley
Phyllis Calvert

as Enid Durnley

Salmaan Peerzada as Shashie Kadir
Salmaan Peerzada

as Shashie Kadir

Christian Roberts as Philip Harvey
Christian Roberts

as Philip Harvey

Gretchen Franklin as Clarkie
Gretchen Franklin

as Clarkie

Timothy West as Superintendant Dakin
Timothy West

as Superintendant Dakin

Movie Facts

Rated

  • M

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • December 20, 1968

Production Companies

  • Charter Film Productions

Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.87 hrs

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**_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’…