The Whisperers

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The Whisperers

1967,

1h 46m,

Drama

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67%

6 Reviews

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59%

100+ Ratings

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67%

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6 Reviews

59%

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100+ Ratings

Elderly Mrs. Ross (Edith Evans) loses her grip on reality when she begins to hear "voices" that seem to be conspiring against her. Separated from her dishonest husband, Archie (Eric Portman), and living alone, Mrs. Ross is patiently waiting for a windfall from her late father's nonexistent estate. When her thieving son, Charlie (Ronald Fraser), stashes a large sum of stolen cash in her apartment, Mrs. Ross finds it, assuming the money is her long-awaited inheritance.

Brenda Davies

Sight & Sound

Mar 19, 2020

It is all presented as if it were being offered as serious social comment on life in Britain today. And it is being accepted as such by American reviewers.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Aug 10, 2020

3.5/5

A vestige of a withering generation swallowed by the impoverishment of their once privileged class, Forbes opens in what feels like Charlotte Perkins Gilman territory as a character study.

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Wilfrid Sheed

Esquire Magazine

Feb 10, 2019

An investigation of this sort into the phenomenology of old age is rare and praiseworthy and an actress who can demonstrate the basic positions is possibly unique... Edith Evans takes the curse off this with a wealth of quirky observation.

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Penelope Houston

The Spectator

Jul 6, 2018

The film is odd and uneasy : through coarse-grained effects it keeps slamming shut doors it has half-opened. But the central performance is a great one.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 29, 2012

B

Dame Edith Evans received Best Actress Oscar nomination and the N.Y. Film Critics award for this grim psychological drama about an elderly women who hears threatening (imaginary?) voices.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Feb 8, 2008

C+

By the third act, I felt as boxed in as the protagonist.

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Synopsis

Elderly Mrs. Ross (Edith Evans) loses her grip on reality when she begins to hear "voices" that seem to be conspiring against her. Separated from her dishonest husband, Archie (Eric Portman), and living alone, Mrs. Ross is patiently waiting for a windfall from her late father's nonexistent estate. When her thieving son, Charlie (Ronald Fraser), stashes a large sum of stolen cash in her apartment, Mrs. Ross finds it, assuming the money is her long-awaited inheritance.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Producer: Michael Laughlin, Ronald Shedlo
Production Co: Seven Pines
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 31, 1967, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2016
Runtime: 1h 46m

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