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Thursday, July 12, 2018











     The Nanny
1965  NR  DRAMA  1h 31min
CAST— Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett, James Villiers, Pamela Franklin, William Dix, Maurice Denham
MUSIC— Richard Rodney Bennett  DIRECTOR— Seth Holt  BASED ON— The Nanny (novel), by Evelyn Piper

     A Hammer film that offers, not schlocky horror, but a half baked mystery. Bette Davis stars as the title nanny, caretaker to a family laden with issues. Father is a cold hearted beast, mother is a panic attack waiting to happen… but sonny boy is the worst; a prank playing brat who deserves a little corporal punishment. The kid has just returned from school and immediately has started tearing into poor Davis, insisting that she has various plans for bumping him off. After seeing this kid would you blame her if she did? A more mature direction for Hammer than the usual gore, but not as entertaining.
OUR RATING— **
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