Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304559475 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 630455947X Label: MGM/UA Home Video Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 105 minutes Sales Rank: 18639 Studio: MGM/UA Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1966
Rating: - "Are you there?"
Dame Edith Evans has perhaps her best movie role as Maggie Ross, a 76-year-old British woman who lives in a small flat and collects assistance. Maggie has paranoid delusions -- she thinks that there are people communicating with her through her water pipes, that the woman living upstairs is a slave being held captive, and that people are watching her. She also believes that she is an heiress whose inheritance has been delayed. When her ne'er do well son stops by for a rare visit and hides some ill-gotten money in her flat, Maggie finds it and thinks that it's her inheritance, which triggers a series of unfortunate events.
"The Whisperers" is all Dame Evan's show. Her performance perfectly captures the confusion, fear, and loneliness of her character. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, losing to Katharine Hepburn, and she won the same award at the Golden Globes. I also think ... Read More
Rating: - Fabulous Movie
I loved this movie. Edith Evans is wonderful in it. The plot is low-key but just sit back and marvel at Evans. She dominates the screen with a very powerful performance. The supporting cast is equally fine. Bryan Forbes did a great job of directing and adapting the novel that the movie was based on. Evans really should have won the Best Actress Oscar for this movie. She was robbed.
Rating: - Edith Evans the realist
Known for her flamboyant Restoration comedy stage (and occasional screen) performances, Edith Evans in this film gives a small, detailed performance of social realism, completely unsentimental and without vanity, that is one of the best 60s 'kitchen sink' dramas on film. It is not a movie about a woman sitting in a room hearing voices all day, as the title and description will usually lead you to believe. It is a moving, lively and sad depiction of old age without money, and the fumbling ineffectiveness of the social welfare system to help; an English equivalent of Gorky's 'The Lower Depths'. It could use a touch of Chechov's compassionate humor. Evans was nominated for an Oscar and lost to Katherine Hepburn for her rather smug performance in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'. Pity. Evans, who could be quite glamorous, is entirely without vanity here. If she were an American, you would hear this performance talked about ... Read More
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