Voices ** (1973, David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 13,490

The 1973 psychological thriller film Voices stars real-life couple David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt as a couple who hear voices from their drowned six-year-old son.

Director Kevin Billington’s 1973 horror thriller psychological drama film Voices is based on Richard Lortz’s play, and stars David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt.

Then real-life couple David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt (married 1968-75) play a young couple who hear voices from their drowned six-year-old son, in this acceptable minor fantasy-chiller tale.

This theatrical, all-too-obvious stage adaptation is basically rather static, uncinematic and thin for a full-length movie.

But Hemmings and Hunnicutt are fine together, there are some intriguing aspects to the story, it is sensitively handled by Kevin Billington. and the film’s limited ambitions make it play better on TV than it did as a main feature in the cinema.

It is shot in Hertfordshire, England, and at EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, with the final scene by the bridge at Tykes Water at the Aldenham Reservoir.

The music is by Richard Rodney Bennett, conducted by Marcus Dods.

It is distributed by Hemdale Film Corporation, an independent US-British film production and distribution company founded in London in 1967 by David Hemmings and John Daly.

The cast

The cast are David Hemmings as Robert, Gayle Hunnicutt as Claire, Lynn Farleigh as the Mother, Eva Griffiths as Jessica, Russell Lewis as John, Peggy Ann Clifford as the medium, and Adam Bridge as David.

David Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003)

Gayle Hunnicutt (February 6, 1943 – August 31, 2023)

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