The Nightcomers

Year: 1971

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: English

Director: Michael Winner

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Two children are placed under the watch of two adults, whose unspeakable crime sets in motion the events leading to the deaths of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. As a prequel to Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, the story traces the slow moral corruption of the youngsters in their care.

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