June 14th  
Blanche Fury** "A" (PG)  
(National Film Theatre)      

(GB 1947)         
Rank/Cineguild. 94m.

An independent minded woman moves to a family estate where she falls in love with the illegitimate rightful heir to the Fury household, with murder in mind...
Watchable Victorian melodrama, made almost as a more modest British Gone with the Wind with the heroine bedecked in various luscious dresses, and stylistically speaking somewhere between the Gainsborough melodramas and the later Hammer films. Shown in an original archived print as part of the BFI's "Film on Film" season.

Written by: Anthony Erskine Lindop, Cecil McGovern, Hugh Mills, from the novel by Marjorie Bowen.
Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan.
Director: Marc Allegret.
Starring: Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough, Walter  Fitzgerald, Suzanne Gibbs, Maurice Denham, George Woodbridge, Amy Veness.
Photography: Guy Green, Geoffrey Unsworth.
Music: Clifton Parker.
Production Design: John Bryan.

+ the story is based on the real-life Stanfield Hall murders in Norfolk