Twisted Nerve
1968
Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then we'll get the pretty girl. We'll get her right between the curl.
Directed by Roy Boulting
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Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
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- Director
- Roy Boulting
- Written by
- Leo Marks, Roy Boulting, Roger Marshall
- Produced by
- Frank Granat, George W. George
- Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Cinematographer
- Harry Waxman
- Editor
- Martin Charles
- Studio
- Charter Film Productions
- Origin country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Language
- en
- TMDB
- 6.8/10 (61 votes)
- IMDb
- 7.0/10 (2,498 votes)
Cast
Hayley Mills
Susan Harper
Hywel Bennett
Martin (Georgie) Durnley
Billie Whitelaw
Joan Harper
Frank Finlay
Henry Durnley
Barry Foster
Gerry Henderson
Phyllis Calvert
Enid Durnley
Salmaan Peerzada
Shashie Kadir
Christian Roberts
Philip Harvey
Gretchen Franklin
Clarkie
Timothy West
Superintendant Dakin
Thorley Walters
Sir John Forrester
Russell Napier
Professor Fuller
Timothy Bateson
Mr. Groom
Basil Dignam
Doctor
Marianne Stone
Store Detective
Richard Davies
'Taffy' Evans
