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Blanche Fury
1948 Crime / Drama / Romance
Review
This respectable Gothic melodrama, based on a novel by Joseph Shearing,
was directed, with some style and imagination, by the renowned French
director Marc Allégret. The inspired art design and
cinematography successfully evoke the period in which the film is set
and the stormy passions that lurk just beneath the surface of Victorian
decorum – lust, revenge and hatred, bubbling tempestuously in the
soul’s crucible. It’s a shame that the screenplay and performances
don’t achieve the same level of excellence.
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Director:
Marc Allégret
Starring: Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough, Walter Fitzgerald, Susanne Gibbs Synopsis
England, in the mid-1800s. After the death of her parents,
Blanche Fuller finds herself alone and destitute. Whilst working
as a companion to an ill-tempered old woman, she receives a letter from
her uncle, Simon Fury, offering her the position of governess at his
family estate, Clare, in Norfolk. On her arrival, Blanche
mistakes her uncle’s steward, Philip Thorn, for his son,
Laurence. Although she quickly falls in love with Philip, Blanche
feels compelled to marry Laurence. It is then that she learns
that Philip – the illegitimate son of the last of the Furys – is
determined to reclaim the estate for himself – even if it means
removing all those who stand in his way...
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