Henry James' novel The Turn of the Screw is masterfully translated to the screen, with Deborah Kerr at her best as the English governess who witnesses two young charges being possessed by specters which may or may not be real. Directed by Jack Clayton and written by Truman Capote and William Archibald, The Innocents boasts both an enormously literate script, and a purely cinematic translation of Jamesian ambiguities and complexities--the basis of what critic Pauline Kael calls “the best ghost movie I've ever seen....”