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    Our Mother’s House (1967)

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    When their deeply religious mother (Annette Carell) dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden of their gloomy Victorian house and continue life as normal, never telling anyone because they are all under-age and fear the orphanage.

    The children release the housekeeper, Elsa (Margaret Leclere), so that they can live alone without adult supervision. One of the children, Jiminee (Mark Lester), learns how to forge his mother’s signature so they can continue to cash her pension checks.

    They stay connected to their deceased mum via seance-like gatherings conducted by Diana (Pamela Franklin) in the garden shed that they call “Mother Time”.

    They are managing pretty well but things turn ugly when the long lost father, Charlie (Dirk Bogarde) returns to take over the household.

    He manipulates them, steals their mother’s life-savings of £400, and in a gripping finale, reveals to the children the terrible secret Mother has hidden from them – with a truly shocking result.

    The movie was filmed in Chichester Road, Croydon, South London.

    Charlie Hook
    Dirk Bogarde
    Jiminee
    Mark Lester
    Diana
    Pamela Franklin
    Hubert
    Louis Sheldon Williams
    Dunstan
    John Gugolka
    Gerty
    Sarah Nicholls
    Willy
    Gustav Henry
    Louis
    Parnum Wallace
    Elsa
    Margaret Leclere
    Mrs Quayle
    Yootha Joyce
    Miss Bailey
    Claire Davidson
    Mr Halbert
    Anthony Nicholls
    Mother
    Annette Carell
    Bank Clerk
    Gerald Sim
    Doreen
    Edina Ronay
    Mr Moley
    Garfield Morgan

    Director
    Jack Clayton

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