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Daughter of Darkness(1948)
Status: Released
Date: 1948-01-21
58%
10 Votes
Time: 1h 31m
In her eyes... evil. On her lips... doom.
Overview:
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies:
Alliance Productions
Victor Hanbury Productions
Movie: Daughter of Darkness
Top 10 Billed Cast
Siobhán McKenna
Emily Beaudine
Anne Crawford
Bess Stanforth
Maxwell Reed
Dan
Barry Morse
Robert Stanforth
Liam Redmond
Father Cocoran
Cyril Smith
Joe
Honor Blackman
Julie Tallent
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