Product Details

• Actors: Edith Evans, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird, Jack Austin, Gerald Sim
• Directors: Bryan Forbes
• Writers: Bryan Forbes, Robert Nicolson
• Producers: Jack Rix, Michael Laughlin, Ronald Shedlo
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630455947X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #245,709 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Best Actress nominee of the 1960's, April 16, 2010

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Brett Gardner (New Haven CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Whisperers (DVD)

Dame Edith is astonishing here. How the Oscar went to Hepburn is one of the greatest travesties in the Academy's history. Never has there been a more heartbreaking, realistic yet unsentimental portrayal of a lonely elderly person. The performance rightly won Best Actress from: The New York Film Critics, The National Board of Review, The Venice Film Festival, The Hollywood Foreign Press (Best Actress, Drama), and the BAFTA. This Bryan Forbes directed film deserves far better than the DVD-R release it gets here, but it is better than nothing. Also notable is the haunting score and bleak b&w cinematography. 4 stars.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Edith Evans the realist, July 27, 2004

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John Ellis "jonthes" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Whisperers (1966) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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 of the social welfare system to help; an English equivalent of Gorky's 'The Lower Depths'. It could use a touch of Chechov's compassionate humor. Evans was nominated for an Oscar and lost to Katherine Hepburn for her rather smug performance in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'. Pity. Evans, who could be quite glamorous, is entirely without vanity here. If she were an American, you would hear this performance talked about in hushed tones at the Actor's Studio.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories, October 27, 2009

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Michael Birch (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Whisperers (1966) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In the late 1960s, I was in the U.S. Navy stationed onboard a submarine tender in Holy Loch, Scotland. One weekend I went down to London and saw "The Whisperers". I was completely engrossed and captivated by Edith Evans' performance. Half way through the film, however, I had to leave the theatre due to a oncoming cold. It was not until more than 40 years later that I was able to see the complete film, and I still consider it to be the best British movie of that era. London may then have been the center of the "Swinging 60s," but it was also drab and cold and at times depressing. "The Whisperers" perfectly captures the "other" side of Mod London. See it.