Daughter of darkness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Daughter of darkness |
| Original title | Daughter of Darkness |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lance Comfort |
| script | Max Catto |
| production |
Victor Hanbury James A. Carter |
| music | Clifton Parker |
| camera | Stanley Pavey |
| cut | Lito Carruthers |
| occupation | |
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Daughter of Darkness (Original title: Daughter of Darkness ) is a British equipped with elements of horror thriller directed by Lance Comfort in 1948 with Anne Crawford , Maxwell Reed , George Thorpe and Barry Morse in the lead roles. The film was made by Victor Hanbury Productions in association with Alliance Productions Ltd. Produced for Paramount based on the play They Walk Alone by Max Catto , who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
action
Emily Beaudine is a young Irish girl whose highly emotional character is hidden behind a supposedly honest, lovely mask of bigoted morality. She works as an assistant in the local parish church, but her secret promiscuity, her disturbing nature and her creepy manner are increasingly disturbing the local women and so Father Cocoran cannot avoid excluding her from the community. When a fair finally visits the small village, the flirtatious Emily meets the boxer Dan in the circus . When it comes to a passionate hug, Emily freaks and tries mercilessly to scratch Dan's eye.
Emily is then sent to England to the Tallent family on a farm in Yorkshire for breeding and order . But because of her submissive display of innocence, the men there soon feel drawn to her again, and the women, above all Bess Stanforth, keep their distance from her with an uncomfortable feeling of vague foreboding as a precaution. Soon the ghosts from the past also return in the form of the traveling circus and return to haunt Emily when the fair comes to this town - with the now scarred Dan among their showmen. When the premiere is over, boxer Dan is found murdered in a nearby barn. And the dark machinations continue. More atrocities come to light when a villager named David Price disappears and his body is soon discovered in a fire in the Tallents' destroyed barn. A brutal killer lurks behind the young girl's delicate mask. But her well-practiced masquerade is of no use to Emily in the end, because she is exposed as a murderous seductress by the prudent Bess who sets the decisive trap for her at the right moment.
Reviews
“An extremely cautiously illustrated crime melodrama about a murderous young nymphomaniac who lives as the pastor's housekeeper in a small Irish village. After seducing and murdering some men, a villager sets a trap for the perpetrator. Elegantly staged, remarkable above all for the depiction of the psychotic femme fatale ". (OmdU)" "
Production notes
The buildings are by Ivan King and Andrew Mazzei. Muir Mathieson was the musical director. Sound engineers were George Burgess and Kenneth Heeley-Ray. Dorothy Sinclair provided the costumes. Nell Taylor and Ida Mills were responsible for the makeup and hairstyles. Production manager was Fraser Foulsham. The film was shot at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith , London in England .
Web links
- Daughter of Darkness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daughter of Darkness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .