Movie: "The Whisperers"
| Release Date: | Jan 1967 |
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| Genres: | Thriller / Drama |
| Awards | Nominated for Oscar. Another 8 wins & 2 nominations |
| Runtime: | 105 min. |
| Cast: | Edith Evans (Mrs. Maggie Ross), Eric Portman (Archie Ross) Nanette Newman (The Girl Upstairs) Avis Bunnage (Mrs. Noonan) Gerald Sim (Mr. Conrad) Ronald Fraser (Charlie Ross) Robin Bailey (Psychiatrist) Kenneth Griffith (Mr. Weaver) Leonard Rossiter (Assistance Board Officer) Margaret Tyzack (Hospital Almoner) Clare Kelly (Prostitute) Michael Lees (First Young Man) Lionel Gamlin (Mr. Conrad's Colleague) Robert Russell (Andy) Harry Baird (Earl, The Man Upstairs) Oliver MacGreevy (Second Redeemer) Frank Singuineau (Negro Doctor) Glen Farmer (First Redeemer) Jack Austin (Police Sergeant) Michael Robbins (Mr. Noonan) Max Bacon (Mr. Fish) George Hillsden (Ticket Collector) Tom Kempinski (Second Young Man) Allan O'Keefe (First Attacker (as Allan O'Keefe)) Michael Francis (Plain-Clothes Policeman) Charlie Bird (Man in N.A.B. Office (as Charles Bird)) Terry Eliot (Nurse) Helen Fleming (Nurse) Francis Flynn (Second Attacker) Sarah Forbes (Mrs. Ross When Young) Roy Herrick (Young Doctor) Shona Lesley (Nurse) Rosemary Lord (Nurse) John Orchard (Grogan) Beth Owen (Nurse) Max Rawnsley (Man in Street) George Spence (Caretaker) Peter Thompson (Publican) Kaplan Kaye (Jimmie Noonan (uncredited)) Roy Maxwell (Third Young Man (uncredited)) Penny Spencer (Mavis Noonan (uncredited)) |
Storyline: 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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