Also Known As: Le narcisse noir
Company: Archers, The / Independent Producers
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Plot: Sister Clodah is dispatched with four other nuns to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. It's a difficult journey and their new house is a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff that had been abandoned by a religious Brotherhood many years before. They soon establish a school and an infirmary though the local General's agent, Mr. Dean, warns them against treating the deathly ill as they would no doubt be blamed if the patient doesn't recover. The location, the culture and the mountain air all begin to have a strange effect on the Sisters. Sister Clodagh, who is also on her first assignment as Sister Superior, begins to remember a romance she had as a young woman before entering the sisterhood. Another however, becomes obsessed with Mr. Dean, which leads to tragedy.
Cast and Character: Deborah Kerr as Sister Clodagh / Flora Robson as Sister Philippa / Jenny Laird as Sister Honey / Judith Furse as Sister Briony / Kathleen Byron as Sister Ruth / Esmond Knight as The Old General / Sabu as The Young General / David Farrar as Mr. Dean / Jean Simmons as Kanchi / May Hallatt as Angu Ayah / Eddie Whaley Jr. as Joseph Anthony / Shaun Noble as Con / Nancy Roberts as Mother Dorothea / Ley On as Phuba
Creators: n/A
Description: After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension - both with the natives and also within their own group - as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.
Directors: Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger
Genres: Drama
Location: County Galway, Ireland
MPAA: Approved
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0039192.jpg
Rating: 7.9
Release Date: December 1947 (USA)
Runtime: 100 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: A story of exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land. Towering over the screen...as the mountains that saw it happen.
Title: Black Narcissus
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039192/
Votes: 11,610
Writers: Rumer Godden / Michael Powell
Year: 1947
Black Narcissus got rated 7.9.
About the movie: Sister Clodah is dispatched with four other nuns to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. It's a difficult journey and their new house is a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff that had been abandoned by a religious Brotherhood many years before. They soon establish a school and an infirmary though the local General's agent, Mr. Dean, warns them against treating the deathly ill as they would no doubt be blamed if the patient doesn't recover. The location, the culture and the mountain air all begin to have a strange effect on the Sisters. Sister Clodagh, who is also on her first assignment as Sister Superior, begins to remember a romance she had as a young woman before entering the sisterhood. Another however, becomes obsessed with Mr. Dean, which leads to tragedy.
The Birds got rated 7.8.
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The Big Clock got rated 7.6.
About the movie: When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janouth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man, whose identity he doesn't know, but who just happen to have contact with the murder victim. That man is a close associate on his magazine whom he enlists to trap this "killer" George Stroud. It's up to George to continue to "help" Janouth, to elude the police and to find proof of his innocence and Janouth's guilt.
Domicile conjugal got rated 7.4.
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