The read
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes60%
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
52 audience votes
Key crew
- Jeremy BrooksScreenplay
- Haya HarareetScreenplay
- Jack ClaytonDirector
- Georges DelerueOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dirk BogardeCharlie Hook
- Margaret LeclereElsa (as Margaret Brooks)
- Pamela FranklinDiana
- Louis Sheldon WilliamsHubert
- John GugolkaDunston
- Mark LesterJiminee
- Phoebe NichollsGerty (as Sarah Nicholls)
- Gustav HenryWilly
- Parnum WallaceLouis
- Yootha JoyceMrs. Quayle
- Claire DavidsonMiss Bailey
- Anthony NichollsMr. Halbert
Stills
Themes
london, englandsibling relationshipbased on novel or bookloss of loved onecon mandead motherold houseloss of innocencekids on their ownlarge family