The Haunting of Helen Walker [1995]

Country of Origin: USA / UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1995
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Running Times: 88 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Rosemont Productions Limited
Executive Producers: David A. Rosemont, Norman Rosemont
Producers: Nick Gillott, Tom McLoughlin
Unit Production Manager: Joyce Turner

SCRIPT
Script: Hugh Whitemore
Novel: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

DIRECTION
Director: Tom McLoughlin
1st Assistant Director: Bert Batt
2nd Assistant Director: Diane Wood
2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Oscar Beuselinck

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Tony Imi
Additional Photographers: Kelvin Pike, Arthur Wooster
Camera Operators: John Palmer, Nigel Slatter
Gaffer: Micky Wilson
Key Grip: Peter Butler
Cameras and Lenses: Moviecam

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Charles Bornstein
Assistant Editor: Barry S. Silver

MUSIC
Music: Allyn Ferguson, Frédéric Chopin [Prelude No 4 in E minor Opus 28]
Music Editor: Lori Slomka

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Brian Simmons
Boom Operator: Keith Batten
Recording Sound Mixers: Sam Black, David E. Fluhr
Re-Recording Mixer: John Asman
Supervising Sound Editor: Stephen Grubbs
Sound Post-Production: Larson Sound Center

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Pauline Heys
Hair: Stephanie Kaye
Costume Designer: Phoebe De Gaye
Wardrobe Supervisor: Michael O'Connor

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Peter Mullins
Art Director: David Minty
Property Master: Brian Wells
Stand-By Props: Nic Stubbings
Production Buyer: Barry Greaves
Construction Manager: Tony Graysmark

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Sally Jones
Production Runner: Bryon Fear
Floor Runner: Toby Hosking

LOCATIONS
Locations: England, UK; Englefield House, Copheale, England, UK

CASTING
Casting: Beth Charkham

CAST
Valerie Bertinelli [Helen Walker]
Florence Hoath [Flora]
Aled Roberts [Miles]
Michael Gough
Paul Rhys
Christopher Guard [Peter Quint]
Diana Rigg [Mrs Grose]
Elizabeth Morton [Miss Jessel]
Tricia Thorns [Peggy]
Aisling Flitton [Connie]
Flip Webster [Alice]
Mark Longhurst [Luke]
Alun Armstrong [the butler - uncredited]

American Helen Walker is hired to act as governess for two young orphaned English children, Miles and Flora. Helen begins to worry about the children's strange behaviour and comes to believe that the children are being haunted by the ghosts of a former handyman and his lover.

1995
December
3: USA - television broadcast

1997
April
11: UK - television broadcast [on Sky Movies]

December
24: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

2000
January
13: UK - television broadcast [on BBC1]

The Turn of the Screw - UK video title
Helen Walker - Schatten des Bösen - German title

SEE ALSO
The Innocents [1961]
Otra vuelta de tuerca [1985]
Presence of Mind [1999]
Quella villa accanto al cimitero [1981]
The Turn of the Screw [1959]
The Turn of the Screw [1974]
The Turn of the Screw [1990a]
The Turn of the Screw [1990b]
The Turn of the Screw [1992]
The Turn of the Screw [1999]

KEYWORDS

book into film, ghosts, children, governesses, haunted houses, the supernatural