Deborah Kerr stars as a governess haunted by ghosts in the 1961 adaptation of Henrys James's novella The Turn of the Screw.
Kerr plays an emotionally repressed vicar's daughter who takes up a job as governess to two seemingly angelic orphans. Gradually coming to believe that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of their former governess and her sadistic lover, she begins to see manifestations of the ghosts prowling the huge gothic mansion of Bly House.
Director Jack Clayton sustains a superbly haunting atmosphere throughout the film, and like James's original work, cleverly retains the ambiguity of whether the ghosts are real or the products of the governess's fevered imagination.