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The Whisperers (1966)
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304559475
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 630455947X
Label: MGM/UA Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Fabulous Movie
I loved this movie. Edith Evans is wonderful in it. The plot is low-key but just sit back and marvel at Evans. She dominates the screen with a very powerful performance. The supporting cast is equally fine. Bryan Forbes did a great job of directing and adapting the novel that the movie was based on. Evans really should have won the Best Actress Oscar for this movie. She was robbed.
Rating:  - Become a fortunate inheritor, you will be surrounded by many, many friends!
Bryan Forbes, (the same who admired in Séance on a wet afternoon) strikes again with this unforgettable black comedy around a very aged and lonely woman, believing to hear voices in everywhere. She nevertheless, maintains a kind correspondence with a male widow, until a sudden fortune comes to her, and (Oh miracle) everybody love her:
Sinister and merciless parody.
Rating: - Edith Evans the realist
Known for her flamboyant Restoration comedy stage (and occasional screen) performances, Edith Evans in this film gives a small, detailed performance of social realism, completely unsentimental and without vanity, that is one of the best 60s 'kitchen sink' dramas on film. It is not a movie about a woman sitting in a room hearing voices all day, as the title and description will usually lead you to believe. It is a moving, lively and sad depiction of old age without money, and the fumbling ineffectiveness ... Read More
Rating: - Flawed, but Great
This film is very unusual and interesting because we are never sure what's happening. Eric Portman plays an old scoundrel
with the cool intelligence of an outstanding actor. The supporting cast is good. The flaw? Edith Evans. She goes
from being ridiculous to tedious to foolishly sad. Her character
is overdone and impossible to feel sorry for. Otherwise a great
movie.
Rating: - Brit flick contemplating old age and insanity
An old lady deals with loneliness in a world that is quite quickly passing her by. Beauty and health have passed with death the only thing to look forward to. Finding comfort in companionship no longer works, and the voices provide some sort of outlet. As she travels through her now mundane life, she explores her life, past and present, and the voices help provide an option previously unknown. Explore old age and insanity, and the comforts of life (material vs. immaterial), with an old lady and The Whisperers.
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