Critical Reception
The Nanny has been well-received by critics. It currently holds a 90% approval rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on ten reviews.
AllMovie called it "one of Hammer Films' better non-supernatural outings of the 1960s".
The movie screening rights were sold to American television for nearly $400,000.
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