Directed by Peter Glenville, the cast featured Beatrice Straight as Miss Giddens and Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Grose.
[6] The play featured Peggy Feury as Miss Giddens, Carroll McComas as Mrs. Grose and Judy Sanford and Christian de Bresson as the children.
[7] The set, by Gary Smith, was called "excellently ominous" by The New York Times reviewer, Louis Calta.
Calta noted that the background music, by Alex North "set the proper mood for the frightening experiences".
[9] Clive Barnes, in his review of the 1976 revival for The New York Times wrote "Mr. Pinter has staged the piece with meticulously Gothic sensibility...
The taste with which the revival was accomplished is unquestionable, but when you have talents of the nature of Miss Bloom and Mr. Pinter on hand, merely to resuscitate a pedestrian stage adaptation of a great novel seems to savor something of folly.