The Turn of The Screw - Adaptations

Adaptations

• An opera, The Turn of the Screw, composed by Benjamin Britten in 1954
• The Turn of the Screw (1959) an early live television play directed by John Frankenheimer and featuring Ingrid Bergman
• Perhaps the best-regarded adaptation is The Innocents (1961) directed by Jack Clayton and featuring Deborah Kerr
• The Nightcomers, a prequel to the actual novel, directed by Michael Winner and featuring Marlon Brando as Quint
• Dan Curtis's well-regarded TV movie The Turn of the Screw (1974) with Lynn Redgrave
• A 1974 adaptation for French television, Le Tour d'écrou, by Raymond Rouleau with Suzanne Flon
• The Turn of the Screw (1982), which is actually a German-made operatic adaptation
• A graphic novel, Giro di vite (1989), published originally by Olympia Press, adapted by Guido Crepax
• A 1989 television adaptation for Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics featuring Amy Irving
• Rusty Lemorande's film The Turn of the Screw (1994) with Patsy Kensit and Julian Sands, which updated the story to the 1960s
• The television movie The Haunting of Helen Walker/The Turn of the Screw (1995) featuring Valerie Bertinelli
• A theatrical adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher in which one woman plays the governess and a man fills the rest of the roles
• Presence of Mind (1999), an acclaimed Spanish-made film adaptation with Sadie Frost and Harvey Keitel
• A British television adaptation The Turn of the Screw (1999) with Jodhi May and Colin Firth
• A 2001 film, The Others starring Nicole Kidman, is cited as being inspired partly by The Turn of the Screw
• BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation in 2004 (later re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 14 November 2011) by Neville Teller, directed by Peter Leslie Wilde and starring Cathy Sara as the Governess and Joseph Tremain as Miles.
• 2004 Hindi film, Hum Kaun Hai, was an unauthorized remake of The Others
• A 2006 film, In a Dark Place is based upon the novel
• BBC Radio 4 (and later BBC Radio 7 broadcast in 2010 an adaptation by John Tideyman, directed by Glyn Dearman and starring Charlotte Attenborough as the Governess, Rosemary Leach as Mrs. Grose, Sam Crane as Miles and Jonathan Adams as the Storyteller.
• The story has also been converted into a ballet by William Tuckett.
• A 2009 BBC television drama starring Michelle Dockery and Sue Johnston, set during the 1920s: The Turn of the Screw

• A very important storyline of the soap opera Dark Shadows was based on this story. The Dark Shadows character Quentin Collins was originally based on the character Peter Quint.
• The Italian filmmaker Marcello Avallone will direct a 3-D adaptation of the novel. It will be the first Italian-produced and screened 3-D film.
• A Photographic Book, 2011: 'A Very Victorian Haunting - Images Inspired by The Turn of the Screw.' Text and Photography by Jonathan Pearlman