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The Nanny – 1965 Holt
- A Hammer film and a 1960’s Bette Davis film so you might think
it was going to be wild, with violence, darkness and over-the-top-ness from
Bette Davis but it’s not—Davis is pretty reserved and the film spends the bulk
of its running time building up the family dynamic
- The boy fakes his suicide hanging like Harold in Harold and Maude six years later
- The young boy is out of control, the mom a bag of tears, the
father a jerk and absent— and Davis as the titular character, menacingly
stoic, troubled, measured
- Marry Poppins in the text (this is the year after)—certainly the
anti-Mary Poppins
- The 17th and final archiveable film for Davis at this
point—what an incredible career. She would keep working but this is the latest
archiveable film
- It isn’t exactly William Wyler—but some nice depth of field
shots here
- Powerful flashback at 59 gives context and color to the preceding
narrative- always interesting
- A few sloppy close-ups
- A recommend- not in the top 10-15 for sure in 1965
Drake2020-04-22T13:55:18+00:00
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