Regarded as a low point in Marlon Brando's career, one year before he was back on top with The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris. Made as a prequel to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Critics complained that the prequel destroyed the ambiguity of the original story.
I didn't want to watch it because I was creeped out by The Innocents and other movies based on or inspired by that story, but this turned out to be a sex movie rather than a ghost story. I turned it on the Criterion Channel the last day it was available there, but it looks like you can still watch it elsewhere on streaming video.
A brother and sister (Christopher Ellis and Verna Harvey) have moved in with their new guardian on his country estate. They haven't been told that their parents are dead. Their guardian takes off and leaves them in the care of their governess (Stephanie Beacham), a housekeeper (Thora Hird), and Marlon Brando as an Irish handyman.
Brando goes for the governess. Bondage was a thing even back then. The kids know what Brando and the governess are doing and start imitating it which is one reason the 12-year-old sister was played by a 19-year-old actress.
A ghastly scene of a dead body in rigor mortis.
Never let yourself be isolated in the country with English children.
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