Anne Bancroft delivers a towering performance as a deeply troubled and tormented wife in this sharply observed portrait of a woman – and a marriage – in crisis. Directed by Jack Clayton Room at the Top, The Innocents with a screenplay by Harold Pinter The Birthday Party based on the acclaimed novel by Penelope Mortimer, this spellbinding film boasts sublime cinematography by the great Oswald Morris (Look Back in Anger, Fragment of Fear, a wonderful score by Georges Delerue>Le Mépri) and outstanding supporting performances from James Mason (The Deadly Affair), Maggie Smith California Suite and Yootha Joyce Fanatic, Fragment of Fear.