The Three Weird Sisters

This article is about the 1948 British film. For the characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth, see Three Witches.

The Three Weird Sisters
UK release poster
Directed byDaniel Birt
Written byDylan Thomas
David Evans
Louise Birt
Based onThe Case of the Weird Sisters by Charlotte Armstrong
Produced byLouis H. Jackson
StarringNancy Price
Mary Clare
Mary Merrall
Raymond Lovell
Nova Pilbeam
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Moray Grant
Edited byMonica Kimick
Music byHans May
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British-Pathé
Release date
  • 12 July 1948 (1948-07-12)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Three Weird Sisters is a 1948 British melodrama film directed by Daniel Birt and starring Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Nova Pilbeam and Raymond Lovell.[1] The film has Gothic influences.[2] The screenplay was adapted by Dylan Thomas and Louise Birt from the novel The Case of the Weird Sisters by Charlotte Armstrong (mistitled The Case of the Three Weird Sisters in the opening credits).[3] The film was Birt's feature film directorial debut. It also marked the last screen appearance of Nova Pilbeam, who retired from acting after it was completed.[4][5]

  1. ^ "The Three Weird Sisters (1948)". Archived from the original on 4 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Gothic: Monstrous and The Dark Arts".
  3. ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Daniel Birt". Archived from the original on 5 May 2016.
  5. ^ Bergan, Ronald; Shorter, Eric (26 July 2015). "Nova Pilbeam obituary". the Guardian.