Jassy (film)

Jassy
UK release poster
Directed byBernard Knowles
Written byDorothy Christie
Campbell Christie
Geoffrey Kerr
Based onnovel by Norah Lofts
Produced bySydney Box
executive
J. Arthur Rank
StarringMargaret Lockwood
Patricia Roc
Dennis Price
Dermot Walsh
Basil Sydney
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Edited byCharles Knott
Music byHenry Geehl
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors (UK);
Universal Pictures (U.S.)
Release date
  • 12 August 1947 (1947-08-12) (UK)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£200,000[1]

Jassy is a 1947 British colour film historical melodrama directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc and Dennis Price. It was written by Dorothy Christie, Campbell Christie and Geoffrey Kerr based on the 1944 novel by Norah Lofts. Set in the early 19th century, it is a Gainsborough melodrama, the only one to be made in Technicolor,[2] and was the last "official" Gainsborough melodrama.[3]