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Twisted Nerve( 1968)

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Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then we'll get the pretty girl. We'll get her right between the curl.

Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Hayley Mills

      Susan Harper

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      Hywel Bennett

      Martin (Georgie) Durnley

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      Billie Whitelaw

      Joan Harper

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      Frank Finlay

      Henry Durnley

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      Barry Foster

      Gerry Henderson

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      Phyllis Calvert

      Enid Durnley

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      Salmaan Peerzada

      Shashie Kadir

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      Christian Roberts

      Philip Harvey

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      Gretchen Franklin

      Clarkie

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      Timothy West

      Superintendant Dakin

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      Thorley Walters

      Sir John Forrester

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      Russell Napier

      Professor Fuller

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      Timothy Bateson

      Mr. Groom

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      Basil Dignam

      Doctor

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      Marianne Stone

      Store Detective

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      Richard Davies

      'Taffy' Evans

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    A review by Wuchak

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    Written by Wuchak on Wed Feb 26 2025
    **_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’s more dramatic and less over-the-top. Hayley was 21 years-old during shooting and thoroughly winsome, as usual, but she needed to eat some cheeseburgers. Meanwhile Billie Whitelaw is sultry as the moth...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • obsession
    • down syndrome
    • stepfather
    • boarding house