Directed by:
Bryan ForbesScreenplay:
Bryan ForbesCinematography:
Gerry TurpinComposer:
John BarryCast:
Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird, Margaret Tyzack, Ronald Fraser, Leonard Rossiter, Kenneth Griffith, Avis Bunnage, Tom Kempinski (more)Plots(1)
The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen all coiled up in a silent radio. The old lady is on to all their tricks, and she tells them so repeatedly. She reports them regularly to the police who scoff at her behind her back. The whisperers, however, are only part of her fantasy life. She imagines also that she is a daughter of aristocracy, an heiress waiting for her money to arrive so that she can pay back the nice gentleman at the Welfare Board. Her routine is shattered irrevocably by the return of her thieving son and vagrant husband, a brief fling with stolen money ending dismally in the gutter where the poor prey on the poor. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Edith Evans
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Eric Portman
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Nanette Newman
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