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Director
  
Lance Comfort

Music director
  
Clifton Parker

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Horror

Cinematography
  
Stanley Pavey

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Release date
  
23 January 1948 (London) United Kingdom27 March 1949 (USA)

Based on
  
play "They Walk Alone" by Max Catto

Writer
  
Max Catto (play), Max Catto (screenplay)

Cast
  
Siobhán McKenna
(Emily Beaudine),
Maxwell Reed
(Dan),
Anne Crawford
(Bess Stanforth),
George Thorpe
(Mr. Tallent),
Barry Morse
(Robert Stanforth),
Liam Redmond
(Father Cocoran)

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Daughter 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.

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Plot

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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.

Critical reception

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  • The Radio Times wrote, "an opportunity to see McKenna, one of the most compelling of Irish stage actresses, portraying a maniac with full-blooded commitment."
  • TV Guide noted, "strong stuff for 1948."
  • In his Guide to British Cinema, Geoff Mayer writes, "Daughter of Darkness, with a budget of two hundred thousand pounds and three weeks of location shooting in Cornwall, was not a financial success and represented a setback to Comfort's career, which saw him relegated to low-budget films in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet the film's mixture of gothic and horror establishes it as one of the most startling British films of the 1940s. "

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