Directed by:
Marc AllégretComposer:
Clifton ParkerCast:
Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough, Maurice Denham, Arthur Wontner, Marie Ault, Walter Fitzgerald, Charles Saynor, Dido Plumb, George Woodbridge (more)VOD (1)
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In 1850s England, poor but genteel Blanche is offered the post of governess to her uncle's granddaughter at his estate, Clare Hall. The property's ownership history is complicated and stableman Philip Thorn, the illegitimate son of the previous owner, has designs on it. With a view to becoming lady of the manor, Blanch marries her cousin Laurence Fury. However, she also begins an affair with Philip, who hatches a murderous plan to put himself first in the line of succession ... The gothic thriller received high praise for its restrained mode of colour design – "The realism of the color photography is often breathtaking in its beauty" (New York Times, 1948). Under a grey sky and in gloomy interiors, the "dazzle effect" of passion is marked with bright red, highlighting both Blanche's bed and the dress she wears on the night of her assignation with Philip, at the end of which hate consumes him. The same red defines the scarf Philip wears as a mask during his crime, the robe of the judge who sentences him, and most tellingly, the fog that signals the dimming of Blanche's consciousness at the beginning and end of the film. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Stewart Granger
UK
Best movies:
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
The Last Hunt (1956)
The Shortest Day (1963)
Valerie Hobson
UK
Best movies:
Great Expectations (1946)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Michael Gough
Malaysia
Best movies:
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Out of Africa (1985)
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Maurice Denham
UK
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Oliver Twist (1948)
The Million Pound Note (1954)
Arthur Wontner
UK
Best movies:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Genevieve (1953)
Sea Devils (1953)
Marie Ault
UK
Best movies:
The Lodger (1927)
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Walter Fitzgerald
UK
Best movies:
The Fallen Idol (1948)
San Demetrio, London (1943)
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Charles Saynor
Best movies:
An Inspector Calls (1954)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
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Dido Plumb
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Great Expectations (1946)
From Russia with Love (1963)
George Woodbridge
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Richard III (1955)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Michael Brennan
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Thunderball (1965)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
Amy Veness
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
The Magic Box (1951)
Ernest Jay
UK
Best movies:
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Cecil Ramage
UK
Best movies:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Allan Jeayes
UK
Best movies:
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Elephant Boy (1937)
Edward Lexy
UK
Best movies:
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Convoy (1940)
Norman Pierce
UK
Best movies:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Margaret Withers
UK
Best movies:
The Million Pound Note (1954)
Bryan Herbert
Ireland
Best movies:
The Citadel (1938)
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
The Dark Eyes of London (1939)
Derek Birch
UK
Best movies:
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)