They Were Sisters

For the 1943 novel, see They Were Sisters (novel).

They Were Sisters
UK release poster
Directed byArthur Crabtree
Written byRoland Pertwee
Based onThey Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
Produced byHarold Huth
StarringPhyllis Calvert
James Mason
Hugh Sinclair
Anne Crawford
Peter Murray Hill
Dulcie Gray
CinematographyJack Cox
Edited byCharles Knott
Music byLouis Levy
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 2 July 1945 (1945-07-02) (UK)
  • 23 July 1946 (1946-07-23) (US)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box officeover £300,000 (UK)[1] or over £1 million[2]

They Were Sisters is a 1945 British melodrama film directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Phyllis Calvert and James Mason. The film was produced by Harold Huth, with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee. They Were Sisters is noted for its frank, unsparing depiction of marital abuse at a time when the subject was rarely discussed openly. It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas.[3]

  1. ^ "Actor's Views May Bring Ban". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 13 September 1945. p. 2. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  2. ^ "English Star". Western Mail. Vol. 61, no. 3, 207. Western Australia. 14 February 1946. p. 26. Retrieved 9 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (29 January 2020). "Why Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood". Filmink.