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- BFI identifier23296
- Date1947 (Copyright)
1947-05-26 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisFive Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn the villagers against the nuns. Finally Sister Ruth becomes mad and attacks the mother superior only to bring about her own death. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- Credits
- CastThe London Symphony Orchestra ([Music Performed] With)
Deborah Kerr (Sister Clodagh)
Sabu (Dilip Rai, the young general)
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Title
Black Narcissus (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/908F-BD9E-8B91-CE9F-47A3-ACategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
16mm Colour Positive - Acetate - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Polyester - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsMusic Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-126
Script - Script type: Screenplay - SCR-4407
Ephemera: publicity - Small pressbook (UK); text only; black lettering on cream background with some decorative features (and additional text on inside pages) in red. - PBS-23296
Ephemera: publicity - Medium pressbook (USA); dark pink cover featuring portrait of Deborah Kerr as Sister Clodagh. - PBM-23296
Script - Screenplay, typescript [mimeographed], soft bound in pale green paper cover [staples have been removed] , 106 pages, no annotation [Same as MLP-1-1-57-2 but without hard binding] Former index number S-69 - MLP-1-1-57-1-4
Medium and small pressbook held. See ALFRED JUNGE Collection for details of his Academy Award for this film. Music Cue Sheet Held.
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: production - Interior Parlour - PD-12
Design: production - Convent corridor, nun on knees scrubing floor - PD-13
Design: production - Veranda room with parrots - PD-14
Design: production - Wall decoration, No.1 Indian gods and godesses - PD-22
Design: production - Classroom with blackboard and pupil and nun infront - PD-247
view all - StillsPortrait - Colour - bfi-00o-6l0
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-8nf
Photograph: production - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00o-5x4
Photograph: production - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00o-5x3
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00o-2zv
view all - ArticlesPremiere v14 n8 April 2001 - DVD ReviewPositif n369 November 1991 - ArticleRadio Times v264 n3457 17 Mar 1990 - ReviewFilm Comment v26 n3 May/Jun 1990 - Articleview all
- BooksBlack narcissus - 2005view all
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes Feburary 2014
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Black Narcissus
Work - 23296 - 1947 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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