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The Blind Goddess (Original title)
Date: 18 October 1948 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Harold French

Synopsis: The private secretary to Lord Brasted learns from a friend that his employer, an administrator of an International Relief organisation, has been converting funds to his private use. After many vicissitudes the secretary manages to expose his employer.

Genre:
Crime
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7892 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (48)
©/Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures, Executive Producer: Betty E. Box, Presents: J. Arthur Rank, Producer: Harold French, In Charge of Production: Sydney Box, Production Controller: Fred Gunn, [Production Secretary]: Audrey Monk, Assistant Director: Alf Keating, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Hal Griver, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Bert Batt, [Continuity]: June Randall, [Assistant Continuity]: Helen Littledale, Screenplay: Muriel Box, Screenplay: Sydney Box, Based on the stage play by: Patrick Hastings, Director of Photography: Ray Elton, [Prague Montage Sequence Photography]: Jack Asher, Cameraman: Dudley Lovell, [Focus Puller]: Manny Yospa, [Clapper Loader]: Alan Gatward, John Bishop, [Stills]: Cedric Haine, [Floor Stills]: Frank Bellingham, Editor: Gordon Hales, [Assistant Editor]: Geoffrey Botterill, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Terry Poulton, Art Director: Norman Arnold, [Draughtsman]: Ernest Archer, Frank White, Wardrobe Supervisor: Yvonne Caffin, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Mrs Wootten, Make-up: Len Garde, [Assistant Make-up]: Gene Beck, [Hairdresser]: Ivy Emmerton, Music: Bernard Grun, Music Played by: London Philharmonia Orchestra, Music Director: John Hollingsworth, Director of Sound: Brian Sewell, Recordist: M. Hobbs, [Sound Maintenance]: Frank Sloggett, [Sound Camera Operator]: F. Jay, [Boom Operator]: Eric Reed, [Boom Assistant]: W. Holland, [Dubbing Crew]: H.L. Bird, F. Davidson, [Publicity]: Betty Callaghan, Studio: Gainsborough Studios
Cast (28)
Eric Portman (Sir John Dearing K.C.), Anne Crawford (Lady Helen Brasted), Hugh Williams (Lord Arthur Brasted), Michael Denison (Derek Waterhouse), Nora Swinburne (Lady Dearing), Raymond Lovell (Frank Mainwaring K.C.), Claire Bloom (Mary Dearing), Frank Cellier (the judge), Clive Morton (Mersel), Elspet Gray (Daphne Dearing), Maurice Denham (Johnson, Lady Brasted's butler), Cecil Bevan (Morton, Dearings' butler), John Stone (Dearing's junior), Philip Saville (Mainwaring's junior), Martin Benson (Count Stephan Mikla), Cyril Chamberlain (policeman in park), Thora Hird (Derek's charwoman), Rosemary Tresten (Helen), Martin Miller (Mario, waiter at the Savoy), Marcel Poncin (Bertoni), Carl Jaffe (Johan Meyer, Count Mikla's valet), Geoffrey Denton (foreman of the jury), Noel Howlett (usher), Carroll Gibbons and His Orchestra (themselves), Grace Allardyce ([jury woman]), Joan Ingham ([2nd jury woman]), Reginald White ([clerk of the court]), Wally Bosco ([newspaper seller])