Twisted Nerve (1968)
Twisted Nerve (1968)
Plot.
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
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Cast & Crew.
Hayley Mills
Susan Harper
Hywel Bennett
Martin Durnley (Georgie Clifford)
Frank Finlay
Henry Durnley
Billie Whitelaw
Joan Harper
Barry Foster
Gerry Henderson
Phyllis Calvert
Enid Durnley
Roy Boulting
Director
Salmaan Peerzada
Shashie Kadir
Leo Marks
Writer
Christian Roberts
Philip Harvey
Roger Marshall
Writer
Gretchen Franklin
Clarkie
Jeremy Scott
Writer
George W. George
Producer
Timothy West
Superintendant Dakin
Thorley Walters
Sir John Forrester
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Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Billie Whitelaw and Frank Finlay. The film follows a disturbed young man, Martin, who pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be intellectually impaired in order to be near Susan—a girl with whom he has become infatuated. Martin kills those who get in his way.