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More Winners – The Journey (1990)

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clip Naughty creature – trying to escape?

Original classification rating: G. This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

Agnes (Melanie Boomer) the young maid is grumpy about the hard work she has to do while Ada (Christen Cornell) sleeps on in her warm bed. Martha (Judith Stratford) the housekeeper behaves very strangely, giving Ada the creeps.

Curator’s notes

The close-up of the snail and then Martha’s eye is great fun. The juxtaposition of the serene, obsessively clean and coldly beautiful Martha, with her disturbing actions, is well done but it is so melodramatic that it becomes more funny than frightening.