Blanche Fury
Blanche Fury is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger and Michael Gough. It was written by Audrey Erskine Lindop, Cecil McGivern and Hugh Mills adapted from the 1939 novel of the same title by Joseph Shearing. In Victorian era England, two schemers will stop at nothing to acquire the Fury estate, even murder. The plot is based on the Stanfield Hall slayings, an actual contemporary homicide case.
Plot
Blanche Fuller is a beautiful and spirited woman employed as a domestic servant after the death of her parents. After a succession of failed positions, she receives an invitation from her rich uncle Simon, whom she has never met due to a family break instigated by her father, to become governess to his granddaughter Lavinia.
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| author | Cecil McGivern Hugh Mills |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | England |
| director | Marc Allégret |
| editor | Jack Harris |
| genre | drama historical mystery |
| keywords | act baby barbary ape break in country estate horrify inherit kill love affair obsess question rich uncle search strike warn |
| musicBy | Clifton Parker |
| producer | Anthony Havelock-Allan |
| productionCompany | Cineguild |
| publisher | General Film Distributors |
| recordedAt | Pinewood Studios |
| theme | gothic |