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Julian Gloag. Novel. Haya Harareet. Screenplay. Jeremy Brooks. Screenplay. Jeanie Sims. Script Editor. Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
Mar 10, 2015 · In “Our Mother’s House,” Mrs. Hook (Annette Carell) dies after refusing to take medicine owing to her fundamentalist beliefs. She leaves her seven orphaned children to fend for themselves. Not wanting to be put in foster homes, the siblings bury their mother in the garden and successfully keep her death a secret.
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Julian Gloag. 3.70. 233 ratings47 reviews. "Mother died at five fifty-eight." So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of an orphanage, decide not to report their mother's death. They bury her in the garden and build a tabernacle over her grave. To the outside world they pretend she is ill and ...
Money-hungry Bogarde threatens this cozy set-up, leaving the children little recourse but to prepare a second grave. Our Mother's House was based on a novel by Julian Gloag; one of the screenwriters was Haya Harareet, who eight years earlier had been Charlton Heston's leading lady in Ben-Hur (59).
Our Mother's House (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Like Ostriches In The Sand Their teacher (Claire Davidson), searching for their friend Louis (Parnham Wallace), is about to discover the Hook children (Margaret Brooks, Louis Sheldon Williams et al) have concealed the death of their mother when their estranged father Charlie (top-billed Dirk Bogarde, his first scene) appears, in Our Mother’s House, 1967.
Margaret Brooks is Elsa, eldest of the seven Hook children, returned to their London home with the shopping, organizing Hubert (Louis Sheldon Williams) and the others for their daily visit with their ailing mother, opening Jack Clayton’s film from the Julian Gloag novel, Our Mother’s House, 1967, starring Dirk Bogarde.
