Fanny by Gaslight

About this film

“Pioneering, innovating film” “Very engrossing” “Part Dickens, part soap opera” “Entertaining” “Overblown Gainsborough gloop” (IMDB reviews quotes). Victorian romantic melodrama with a plot too risque for the prudish Hayes Office censors. It was banned in the US until 1948. Good cast and good period-piece production. IMDB rating 6.6. Directed by Anthony Asquith. UK release 1944. US release 1948. Complete print. A. K.A. “Man of Evil”

Directors & creators

Edward Black

Subjects

dramas; Victorian melodrama; romantic dramas; Phyllis Calvert; James Mason; Stewart Granger; Jean Kent; Margaretta Scott; Helen Haye; Cathleen Nesbitt

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