Black Narcissus (1947)
Black Narcissus (1947)
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Cast & Crew.
Deborah Kerr
Sister Clodagh
David Farrar
Mr. Dean
Flora Robson
Sister Philippa
Kathleen Byron
Sister Ruth
Sabu
The Young General
Jean Simmons
Kanchi
Jenny Laird
Sister Honey
Judith Furse
Sister Briony
Esmond Knight
The Old General
May Hallatt
Angu Ayah
Eddie Whaley Jr.
Joseph Anthony
Shaun Noble
Con
Nancy Roberts
Mother Dorothea
Ley On
Phuba
Joan Cozier
Girl in Classroom (uncredited)
Maxwell Foster
Clodagh's Father in Flashback (uncredited)
Margaret Scudamore
Clodagh's Grandmother in Flashback (uncredited)
Helen Debroy Summers
Clodagh's Mother in Flashback (uncredited)
Jack Cardiff
Director of Photography
Michael Powell
Writer / Producer / Director
Emeric Pressburger
Writer / Director / Producer
George R. Busby
Producer
Brian Easdale
Original Music Composer
Rumer Godden
Novel
Reginald Mills
Editor
George Blackler
Makeup Artist
Sydney Pearson
Special Effects
Biddy Chrystal
Hairstylist
Alfred Junge
Production Design
Jack Higgins
Special Effects
E. Hague
Special Effects
James Snow
Special Effects
Hein Heckroth
Costume Design
Kenneth Rick
Second Assistant Director
Laurie Knight
Third Assistant Director
Sydney Streeter
Assistant Director
Ernest Gasser
Assistant Makeup Artist
Robert Lynn
Third Assistant Director
Adele Raymond
Casting
Vishwanatha Nageshkar
Set Designer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 26, 1947
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingNR
Budget$424,000
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
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Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It stars Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, and Flora Robson, and features Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, and Kathleen Byron.
Set during the final years of British colonial rule in India, the film depicts the growing tensions within a small convent of Anglican sisters who are trying to establish a school and hospital in the old harem of an Indian Raja at the top of an isolated mountain in the Himalayas. The nuns have trouble adapting to the harsh climate and antagonistic population. They come to rely on the help and advice of the Raja's British agent, a cynical Englishman whose attractiveness and panache become a source of temptation for the sisters.
Black Narcissus received acclaim for its technical mastery, with the cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, winning an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and a Golden Globe Award for Best Cinematography, and Alfred Junge winning an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
According to film critic David Thomson, "Black Narcissus is that rare thing, an erotic English film about the fantasies of nuns, startling whenever Kathleen Byron is involved".