Blanche Fury

Blanche Fury
Directed byMarc Allégret
Written byAudrey Erskine Lindop
Cecil McGivern
Hugh Mills (dialogue)
Based onBlanche Fury
1939 novel
by Marjorie Bowen
Produced byAnthony Havelock-Allan
StarringValerie Hobson
Stewart Granger
Michael Gough
CinematographyGuy Green
Geoffrey Unsworth
Edited byJack Harris
Music byClifton Parker
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 19 February 1948 (1948-02-19)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[1] or £382,175[2][3]
Box office1,547,740 admissions (France)[4]
£200,500 (UK) (by 24 Dec 1949)[2] or £246,800[3]

Blanche Fury is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger and Michael Gough. It was adapted from a 1939 novel of the same title by Joseph Shearing. In Victorian era England, two schemers will stop at nothing to acquire the Fury estate, even murder.

  1. ^ Variety film review via archive.org; accessed 2 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b Gillett, Philip (2003). The British working class in postwar film. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 200. ISBN 0719062578.
  3. ^ a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 353. Income is in terms of producer's share.
  4. ^ Box office information for Stewart Granger films in France, boxofficestory.com; accessed 2 November 2016.