So Evil My Love

So Evil My Love
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLewis Allen
Screenplay by
Based onthe novel
by For Her to See by Marjorie Bowen
Produced byHal B. Wallis
Starring
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies
Paramount Pictures, Inc.
Distributed byParamount British Pictures
Release dates
  • 3 March 1948 (1948-03-03) (London)
  • 21 July 1948 (1948-07-21) (New York City)
Running time
112 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.5 million[1]

So Evil My Love is a 1948 British and American Gothic psychological thriller film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd and Geraldine Fitzgerald.[2]

So Evil My Love is a period drama set in the Victorian era, and shot in film noir style in the late-1940s subgenre often referred to as "Gaslight noir".[3] The film is based on the popular 1947 For Her to See novel by Marjorie Bowen (published under the pseudonym Joseph Shearing).[4] Elements of the plot are based on the mysterious death of barrister Charles Bravo in 1876. The conclusion may also be based on the death (in New York City, in 1904) of Cesar Young by Nan Patterson.[5]

  1. ^ "Hazen Denies Rank Has Interest in 'Fury'". Variety. 15 January 1947. p. 4.
  2. ^ So Evil My Love at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved: 26 August 2016.
  3. ^ Beal, Nick. "Film Noir of the Week: 'So Evil My Love' (1948)." noiroftheweek.com, 19 September 2009. Retrieved: 26 August 2016.
  4. ^ Goble 1999, p. 448.
  5. ^ Smith, Richard Harland. So Evil My Love, essay, at Turner Classic Movies.