Connection
Daughter of Darkness is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lance Comfort released in USA on 26 december 1956 with Anne Crawford
Daughter of Darkness (1948)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listDaughter of Darkness is a 1948 British film, with macabre overtones, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed and - in the central role - Siobhan McKenna. Released in January 1948, it was based on a then ten-year-old play by Max Catto called They Walk Alone. An expensive film for its day, it was shot at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, and on location. McKenna was offered a Hollywood contract following her memorable performance, but heeded the counsel of Laurence Olivier to remain in theatre work.
Synopsis
In the small Irish town of Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters Dan (Maxwell Reed), a handsome young boxer – and lays his face open with her fingernails when he attempts to seduce her. Hurriedly packed off to Yorkshire by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond), Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and revulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and she finds herself face to face with the vengeful Dan.Actors
Anne Crawford
(Bess Stanforth)
Maxwell Reed
(Dan)
Barry Morse
(Robert Stanforth)
Siobhán McKenna
(Emily Beaudine)
Liam Redmond
(Father Cocoran)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Daughter of Darkness
There are 78 films with the same actors, 32 films with the same director, 70911 with the same cinematographic genres (including 3831 with exactly the same 3 genres than Daughter of Darkness), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Daughter of Darkness, you will probably like those similar films :
Bedelia (1946)
, 1h30Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes, Anne Crawford, Beatrice Varley, Louise Hampton
Rating65%
Bedelia Carrington (Margaret Lockwood) is apparently happily married and living in Monte Carlo with Charlie Carrington (Ian Hunter.) However, a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney (Barry K. Barnes), begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, in reality a detective, suspects that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to dispose of more than one husband for the insurance money.
At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
, 1h11Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Patricia Dainton, Patrick Barr, Dermot Walsh, Clifford Evans, Alexander Doré, William Moore
Rating48%
L'intrigue suit une célèbre journaliste de Fleet Street (Patricia Dainton ) qui est enlevé par un pianiste de concert (Stephen Murray ) qui la force à écrire une histoire quotidienne sur lui et menace de la tuer dans un délai de cinq jours si elle refuse.
The Man in the Road (1956)
, 1h23Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit, Lisa Daniely, Russell Napier, Cyril Cusack
Rating62%
A brilliant scientist suffering from amnesia is hunted by Communist agents in search of a secret formula.
Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
, 1h27Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr, Ian Hunter, Maurice Denham, Bruce Seton
Rating66%
Just-married taxi driver Thomas Lesley ‘Tom’ Manning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl who says that she has lost her dog. The kind-hearted Manning gives her his handkerchief to dry her tears. She then runs off taunting Manning as an April-fool prank. He stumbles and raises a fist at her – and this is witnessed by Mrs Zunz.
Portrait of Clare (1950)
, 1h40Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey, Ronald Howard, Jeremy Spenser, Molly Urquhart
Rating64%
As told in flashback to her granddaughter: the three marriages of Clare Hingston. These are: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister.
Pit of Darkness (1961)
, 1h16Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors William Leo Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Leonard Sachs, Bruno Barnabe, Nigel Green, Anthony Booth
Rating62%
Safe-designer Richard Logan (Franklyn) comes to consciousness on a patch of waste ground with no recollection of how he came to be there. Assuming he must have been attacked and hit over the head, but feeling no apparent ill-effects, he returns home to wife Julie (Redmond) to apologise for being late and tell his story. He is astonished to learn from Julie that he has been missing not for a few hours, but for three weeks. Furthermore, a troubling series of events has occurred during his absence, which appear to point to his involvement in criminal activity. A safe which he personally installed in a large house has been robbed and its contents stolen, with no explanation as to how its supposedly foolproof security mechanisms were so easily overridden. In an attempt to trace her missing husband, Julie has employed a private detective, who discovered evidence implicating Richard of involvement with another woman, and more seriously the private detective has recently been found murdered.
Rag Doll (1961)
, 1h7Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hermione Baddeley, Kenneth Griffith, Patrick Magee, Patrick Jordan
Rating56%
Seventeen-year-old Carol (Christina Gregg) flees her small-town home to escape from her alcoholic stepfather, and heads off to London to live with her aunt. Once in London she is drawn to the sleazy excitement of Soho and finds work in a coffee bar. She falls in love with handsome young nightclub singer Joe Shane (Conrad) and soon they are a couple. She then discovers that Joe is a small-time crook on the side, with a gang background and a line in petty burglary.
The Breaking Point (1961)
, 59minutesDirected by Peter Medak, Lance Comfort
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Dermot Walsh, Lisa Gastoni, Jack Allen, Brian Cobby, Gertan Klauber, Charles Russell
Rating55%
Blind Corner (1964)
, 1h20Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors William Sylvester, Barbara Shelley, Elizabeth Shepherd, Mark Eden, Edward Evans, Joy Allen
Rating65%
Paul Gregory (Sylvester) is a blind but very successful pop music composer, married to the beautiful Anne (Shelley). Anne is having a secret affair with struggling artist Rickie Seldon (Alexander Davion), and persuades Paul to commission Rickie to paint her portrait as a pretext to enable them to spend time together. Paul agrees, but after a recording session with Ronnie Carroll he is told by his business partner Mike Williams (Mark Eden) that Anne and Rickie have been seen about town together in circumstances which leave no doubt that they are more than friends. Paul knows that Mike has always disliked Anne and suspects he may be trouble-causing, but is finally persuaded of the validity of his allegations.
Temptation Harbour (1947)
, 1h31Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robert Newton, Simone Simon, William Hartnell, Marcel Dalio, Edward Rigby, Charles Victor
Rating69%
A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which later finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.