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| BLACK NARCISSUS |
| Title of the Film | BLACK NARCISSUS |
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| English Titles | |
| Year of Release | 1947 |
| Country of Origin | UK |
| Language(s) | English |
| Run Time (in minutes) | 100 |
| Length (in meters) | 2742 |
| Colour | Technicolor |
| Genre | Melodrama |
| Based on/Source | Eponymous novel by Rumer Godden |
| Production Companies | The Archers |
| Producer(s) | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Director | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Cast | Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Kathleen Byron, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse, Jean Simmons |
| Literature | Picture Post, 21 December 1946 Times, 24 April 1947 Kinematograph Weekly, 24 April 1947 Jewish Chronicle, 25 April 1947 Punch, 30 April 1947 Picturegoer, 24 May 1947 Monthly Film Bulletin, May 1947 New York Times, 14 August 1947 The Nation, 30 August 1947 (James Agee) Aufbau, 5 September 1947 Palestine Post, 19 January 1948 Michael Walker: BLACK NARCISSUS. Framework, no. 9 (Winter 1978/79). Sarah Street: BLACK NARCISSUS. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. Sarah Street: British Cinema, American Reception: BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) and the Legion of Decency. In: James Chapman, Mark Glancy, Sue Harper (eds.): The New Film History. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/438337/index.html |
| Special notes | Screenplay by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Art direction: Alfred Junge Costumes: Hein Heckroth Draughtsman: William Kellner |