Esther Waters (film)

Esther Waters
Directed byIan Dalrymple
Peter Proud
Written byMichael Gordon
William Rose
Gerard Tyrrell (Additional dialogue)
Based onEsther Waters by George Moore
Produced byIan Dalrymple
Peter Proud
StarringKathleen Ryan
Dirk Bogarde
CinematographyC.M. Pennington-Richards
H.E. Fowle
Edited byBrereton Porter
Music byGordon Jacob (as Dr. Gordon Jacob)
Production
companies
Independent Producers
Wessex Film Productions
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • 22 September 1948 (1948-09-22) (London)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£338,551[1]
Box office£47,700 (by Dec 1949) or £32,900[1]

Esther Waters is a 1948 British drama film directed by Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud and starring Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde (first credited film appearance), and Cyril Cusack.[2][3] It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel Esther Waters by George Moore.[4]

  1. ^ a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 354. Income is in terms of producer's share of receipts.
  2. ^ "Esther Waters". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Esther Waters". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Episode 1, Esther Waters, Classic Serial - BBC Radio 4".