Forgotten Movie Songs #9: "O Willow Waly" from THE INNOCENTS

At the beginning of Jack Clayton's elegant but shocking 1961 horror film The Innocents, the audience sits in a darkened theater, listening as a song sings out, seeming as old as the film's central location--a maddening, decrepit manor isolated on the rainy English countryside. This macabre ditty is delivered a capella by a little girl--presumably Pamela Franklin, who stars along with Martin

Film #8: The Innocents

In 1961, British director Jack Clayton delivered one of the greatest horror movies ever made--the ghost story to best all ghost stories. His exquisite adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw is boldly frightening, sexually suggestive, and beautifully shot (by Freddie Francis). Deborah Kerr, in perhaps her finest performance, plays a repressed nanny whose new charge--taking care of two