Quint at the Window: (1959 - The Turn of the Screw)

**No, I cannot upload the whole movie because I don't want this account deleted. This is for educational purposes only. **

This is the rare version from 1959 and stars Ingrid Bergman as The Governess. If you like to see more clips from this, feel free to request them.

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[Dix994]

pretty cool, but not as creepy as the Clayton version. Would love to see more.

[TOTSenthusiast]

@Dix994 I'll be sure to add more. Any scene in particular?

[GuinnevereB]

Again, it's so interesting to compare Ingrid Bergman's interpretation with Deborah Kerr's. (For a crazy woman, the Governess is pretty brave. Quint may just be in her imagination, but SHE doesn't know that, and there she goes out to confront him. Lol!)

Seriously, thank you for posting this clip.

[TOTSenthusiast]

@GuinnevereB You're welcome! And I agree with Dix994. I don't feel that the Governess is crazy either but highly sexually repressed.

[Toneytc]

Quint in this scene looks something like Christopher Lee.

[Dix994]

@GuinnevereB As a lover of all things ghostly, I prefer TOTS to be a "true" ghost story! Still, I can see why it's been so debatable, since it was written in a time where women were often referred to as repressed, esp. unmarried women.

If u read the James story "The Jolly Corner", u may be even more inclined to feel the ghosts were in the governess's head. In this story, a man thinks he's being haunted, but the ghost turns out to be his other "self"....So James did write of such things.

[GuinnevereB]

@Dix994 , This is why I love this story, because it is never cut-and-dried. The discussion (sometimes it gets to be almost a knock-down, drag-out fight, depending on how vehement the parties to the "discussion" are!) has been going on ever since the story was first published. Even though the author explained that the Archbishop told him a story classified as ghostly, it's never entirely clear that it's strictly that. There are too many gray areas, and that's what makes it fun.

[VictoriaWinters1991]

@Dix994 This is my other account but yes, I can see about posting that clip for you today. I only hope I'm correct. From what I can remember, if it is in fact there, it was pretty brief.

[Dix994]

@TOTSenthusiast I think I may have mentioned this to you before, but I have yet to see a version of the story that shows the scene in the dark early morning hours where the governess confronts Quint on the staircase in the house. Great scene, the best in the book, I think, and as creepy as the window scene - but it seems it is always left out, or replaced by an apparition of Ms Jessel in the house.  I was hoping maybe it was in this version?

[Dix994]

yes, this may be true that she is the only one that sees the ghosts, however, it appears that Flora at the lake was looking directly at Miss Jessel. Though she acted as if she didn't see her, the camera shows her looking directly at her.

Also, even if the gov. WAS the only one who saw them, that is not so unusual. It is of opinion that not everyone is in tune with the supernatural, for example there are those who say that kids are more likely to see ghosts, due to their more open minds.

[GuinnevereB]

@TOTSenthusiast , Well, she sees and hears things (people) no one else can see/hear. At least, they're not admitting to it, and I'd think the servants would own up if they'd seen the ghosts too. Hallucinations are one of the symptoms of schizophrenia, along with a paranoid delusional mindset (which she has). I also think she's a mass of neuroses, sexual repression among them, but the things she sees and hears are simply not there for anybody else, and that's one measure of insanity.

[Dix994]

@GuinnevereB I don't think she was crazy....maybe sexually repressed like many women of that time, but I like to believe that James intended for this to be a ghost story..and I think he even admitted such at some point, that he always wanted to write one and that he intended for it to be one.