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Twisted Nerve

Cast

Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay View All


Crew

Roger Marshall (Story), Leo Marks (Screenplay), Roy Boulting (Screenplay), Roy Boulting (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 15th, 1968
Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes
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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One of the most controversial British films of the late sixties; [i]Twisted Nerve[/i] was banished to virtual obscurity thanks to it's spurious scientific links between the siblings of Downs Syndrome children (a condition unfortunately referred to as Mongolism in the film) and psychosis..


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