Quiet as a Nun - 1978
Director(s)
Moira Armstrong
Writer(s)
Antonia Fraser novel
Julia Jones
Philip Mackie
Producer(s)
Jacqueline Davis producer
Cast
Maria Aitken - Jemina Shore
Renée Asherson - Mother Ancilla
Brenda Bruce - Sister Elizabeth
David Burke - Tom
James Laurenson - Alexander Sharbeck
Doran Godwin - Sister Lucy
Margaret D'Arcy - Sister Clare
Kate Binchy - Sister Edward
Linda Slater - Dodo
Sarah Webb - Margaret
Michele Winstanley - Blanche
Patsy Kensit - Tessa
Catrina Hylton - May
Mary Healey - Beatrice O'Dowd
James Appleby - Joe
Susan Engel - Sister Agnes
Sylvia Coleridge - Sister Boniface
Review by Theo Robertson
Quiet as a Nun (1978) (TV)
Contains One Memorable Scene,
It wouldn`t be obvious at the time but the heroine of QUIET AS A NUN is Jemima Shore a character who had her own series in the the early 1980s and was played by Patricia Hodge ,whilst here Shore is played by Marie Aitken
This ARMCHAIR THRILLER is slightly more memorable than most because of the atmosphere generated that climaxes in a memorable cliffhanger to one of the episodes . Jemima is investigating a catholic run order that has a legend of a nun who was locked into a room in a tower and left to die . Late one night Jemima goes into the tower where the nun supposedly died and sees a nun rocking back and forth in a rocking chair , the nun is aware of Jemima`s presence and turns - The nun has no face . Jemima screams and falls down the tower steps
A very scary cliffhanger . However Jemima Shore isn`t associated with the supernatural genre so anyone expecting ghosts and spirits is going to be very disappointed as it`s revealed in SCOOBY DOO tradition that the nun with no face is entirely human and is involved with a scam with her lover
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