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The Three Weird Sisters is a British film of genre Drama directed by Daniel Birt with Nancy Price
The Three Weird Sisters (1948)
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Add to a movie listThe Three Weird Sisters is a 1948 British melodrama with Gothic influences, directed by Daniel Birt and starring Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall and Raymond Lovell. The screenplay was adapted by Dylan Thomas and Louise Birt from the novel The Case of the Weird Sisters by Charlotte Armstrong. The film was Birt's directorial debut, while marking the last screen appearance of Nova Pilbeam who retired from the acting profession after it was completed.
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The elderly Morgan-Vaughan sisters Gertrude (Price), Maude (Clare) and Isobel (Merrall) live in a decaying and claustrophobic mansion in a Welsh mining village. Gertrude is blind, Maude almost deaf and Isobel crippled by arthritis. The local coal mine out of which the family made their fortune is almost worked-out and its tunnels and shafts are dangerously unstable. When a section of the underground workings collapses catastrophically, destroying a row of local cottages and unsettling the foundations of the mansion, the sisters feel honour-bound to finance repairs but have no capital with which to do so.Actors
Nancy Price
(Gertrude Morgan-Vaughan)
Mary Clare
(Maude Morgan-Vaughan)
Mary Merrall
(Isobel Morgan-Vaughan)
Raymond Lovell
(Owen Morgan-Vaughan)
Nova Pilbeam
(Claire Prentiss)
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