1 Movie Starring Jack Austin

The Whisperers

The Whisperers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-07-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (655 Reviews)

Director:

Bryan Forbes

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Nicolson (novel)

Bryan Forbes (written for the screen by)

Fullplot:

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen all coiled up in a silent radio. The old lady is on to all their tricks, and she tells them so repeatedly. She reports them regularly to the police who scoff at her behind her back. The whisperers, however, are only part of her fantasy life. She imagines also that she is a daughter of aristocracy, an heiress waiting for her money to arrive so that she can pay back the nice gentleman at the Welfare Board. Her routine is shattered irrevocably by the return of her thieving son and vagrant husband, a brief fling with stolen money ending dismally in the gutter where the poor prey on the poor.

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