When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dirk Bogarde | ... | Charlie Hook | |
| Margaret Leclere | ... | Elsa (as Margaret Brooks) | |
| Pamela Franklin | ... | Diana | |
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Louis Sheldon Williams | ... | Hubert |
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John Gugolka | ... | Dunstan |
| Mark Lester | ... | Jiminee | |
| Phoebe Nicholls | ... | Gerty (as Sarah Nicholls) | |
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Gustav Henry | ... | Willy |
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Parnum Wallace | ... | Louis |
| Yootha Joyce | ... | Mrs. Quayle | |
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Claire Davidson | ... | Miss Bailey |
| Anthony Nicholls | ... | Mr. Halbert | |
| Annette Carell | ... | Mother | |
| Gerald Sim | ... | Bank Clerk | |
| Edina Ronay | ... | Doreen | |
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When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears... Written by Allen Dace
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cutting hair | religious fanaticism | screaming girl | bird in a cage | brother sister relationship |Taglines:
We know a secret -- We won't tell. For if we tell, We'll go to hell. See more »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 September 1967 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Hubert: There wasn't one. We buried her in the garden.
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Written and Performed by Georges Delerue Et Son Orchestre
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Three of the seven juvenile actors and actresses who play the Hook children, Margaret Leclere (Elsa), Pamela Franklin (Diana), and Phoebe Nicholls (Gerty), went on to further success and developed enduring movie and television careers as adults. Mark Lester also had later successes, most famously in the title role in Oliver! (1968). He gave up acting in the early 1980s and became an osteopath, but returned to movies after more than thirty years to play the role of 1066. See more »Quotes
Charlie Hook: When your mother died, I mean, what happened about the funeral?Hubert: There wasn't one. We buried her in the garden.
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Our Mother's House (Main Title)Written and Performed by Georges Delerue Et Son Orchestre
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OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE is one weird psychological ride. Here we have a family living in a gloomy Victorian house with a reclusive, Bible-thumping invalid mother--surely fertile ground for insanity or incest or both. However, what we have is a painful portrait of adolescence in the older children and the horrors of navigating through an adult world. Left to their own devices after the mother's untimely death, the children do their best to survive, being molded by the mother's unstable religious ramblings. However, things take a turn for the worst when the absentee father arrives, shattering some illusions crucial to the little family's identity. . .
I've never seen anything like this film(the recent film THE CEMENT GARDEN comes to mind, but that film takes an entirely different direction with an incest theme), one in which children literally elevate their mother to the status of religious icon. This situation is simultaneously chilling and pathetic. This one is for people who enjoy character-driven psychological dramas.