Directed by:
Bryan ForbesScreenplay:
Bryan ForbesCinematography:
Gerry TurpinComposer:
John BarryCast:
Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird, Margaret Tyzack, Ronald Fraser, Leonard Rossiter, Kenneth Griffith, Avis Bunnage, Tom Kempinski (more)Plots(1)
The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen all coiled up in a silent radio. The old lady is on to all their tricks, and she tells them so repeatedly. She reports them regularly to the police who scoff at her behind her back. The whisperers, however, are only part of her fantasy life. She imagines also that she is a daughter of aristocracy, an heiress waiting for her money to arrive so that she can pay back the nice gentleman at the Welfare Board. Her routine is shattered irrevocably by the return of her thieving son and vagrant husband, a brief fling with stolen money ending dismally in the gutter where the poor prey on the poor. (official distributor synopsis)
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The Whisperers / Equus
Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Kritzerland Records
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 01:10:14
Notes: Limited edition.
1. | THE WHISPERERS: Main Title | John Barry | 02:48 |
2. | Sticks And Stones | John Barry | 02:51 |
3. | The Three Attackers | John Barry | 02:28 |
4. | Nobody And Nothing | John Barry | 03:25 |
5. | Nobody And Nothing - Jazz | John Barry | 04:02 |
6. | The Letter | John Barry | 03:57 |
7. | The Razor Attack | John Barry | 01:57 |
8. | We Danced Home Again | John Barry | 03:03 |
9. | You're On Your Own Again | John Barry | 02:47 |
10. | Are You There? - End Title | John Barry | 03:27 |
11. | EQUUS: Main Title / The Hospital | Richard Rodney Bennett | 03:13 |
12. | The Beach / The Pictures | Richard Rodney Bennett | 03:48 |
13. | The Stables | Richard Rodney Bennett | 04:47 |
14. | The Field Of Ha Ha | Richard Rodney Bennett | 03:56 |
15. | The Stabbing | Richard Rodney Bennett | 02:41 |
16. | Epilogue | Richard Rodney Bennett | 04:08 |
17. | EQUUS (MONOLOGUES): Monologue 1 | 02:51 | |
18. | Monologue 2 | 02:14 | |
19. | Monologue 3 | 01:29 | |
20. | Monologue 4 | 03:48 | |
21. | Monologue 5 | 03:26 | |
22. | Monologue 6 | 03:08 |
The Whisperers
Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Rykodisc
Year: 1998
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 30:03
1. | Main Title - The Whisperers | John Barry | 02:48 |
2. | "Listen To This" - Dialogue | 00:19 | |
3. | Sticks And Stones | John Barry | 02:52 |
4. | The Three Attackers | John Barry | 02:28 |
5. | Nobody And Nothing | John Barry | 02:26 |
6. | "Nothing Racy" - Dialogue | 00:28 | |
7. | Nobody And Nothing - Jazz | John Barry | 04:03 |
8. | The Letter | John Barry | 03:57 |
9. | "Is The Wireless On?" - Dialogue | 00:15 | |
10. | The Razor Attack | John Barry | 01:57 |
11. | We Danced Home Again | John Barry | 03:04 |
12. | Youre On Your Own Again | John Barry | 02:48 |
13. | "Looking For The Whisperers" - Dialogue | 00:13 | |
14. | Are You There? / End Title | John Barry | 02:25 |