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The Whisperers: Directed by Bryan Forbes. With Edith Evans, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird, Jack Austin. Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth.
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- Drama
- Bryan Forbes
- 1967-07-18
The Whisperers is a 1967 British drama film directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Edith Evans. It is based on the 1961 novel by Robert Nicolson. Plot. Mrs Margaret Ross, an impoverished, elderly, eccentric woman, is living in a ground floor flat, in an unnamed town in northern England.
A film by Bryan Forbes about an old lady who hears voices and searches for human contact in a London flat. Dame Edith Evans gives a tender and sympathetic performance, but the plot is marred by melodrama and cops and robbers.
Elderly Mrs. Ross (Edith Evans) loses her grip on reality when she begins to hear "voices" that seem to be conspiring against her. Separated from her dishonest husband, Archie (Eric Portman), and...
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- Edith Evans
- Bryan Forbes
- Drama
Whisperers, The -- (Movie Clip) Open, Mrs. Ross Shot in the city of Manchester, the haunting opening to writer-director Bryan Forbes' study of growing old in England, The Whisperers, 1967, starring Edith Evans.
- Bryan Forbes, Christopher Dryhurst
- Edith Evans
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true. Bryan Forbes. Director, Screenplay. Robert Nicolson.
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Apr 5, 2024 · As good a portrait of what it means to be old and lonely as any you’ll see, 1967’s The Whisperers is an atypical British movie for the Swinging mid-Sixties, almost a return to the kitchen-sinkers of the early part of the decade.
