Blanche Fury Marc Allégret Digital Life VHS

Blanche Fury
starring: Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough, Walter Fitzgerald, Susanne Gibbs
directed by: Marc Allégret

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304422939
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304422938
Label: Evergreen Ent
Manufacturer: Evergreen Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Evergreen Ent
Release Date: May 27, 1997
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 17660
Studio: Evergreen Ent

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- Handsome and brooding period drama
Blanche-played by Valerie Hobson- is a free spirited and independent woman ,qualities that serve her ill in her role as servant and general factotum to spoiled and selfish rich women .Her life changes when she is taken back intop the bosom of a previously estranged branch of the family and engagaed as governess to the daughter of the Fury family at palatial Clare Hall in Staffordshire .The head of the family is Simon Fury -playd with appropriate brusqueness and authority by Walter Fitzgerald,and there is a grown up son (Michael Gough)who is clearly attracted to Blanche .Brooding away in the background is the estate manager Philip Thorn (Stewart Granger)who is persuaded that he has a legitimate claim on Clare Hall ,through his late mother ,and whose determination to possess Clare Hall by any means possible has grown to become a dangerous obsession .He and Blanche become lovers even after her marriage to the eldest ... Read More

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- Impressive Film
I saw this film for the first time yesterday. I think it quite a subtle film and in its way a near masterpiece. After viewing it I took the trouble of hunting down some contemporary reviews. These where not very flattering and only confirmed me in my contempt for the professional critic. All the performances are outstanding and the film as a whole is impressively crafted. Stewart Granger handles what is a difficult part with a great deal of credit, depicting with conviction the character of a man so driven that he will in the end murder. Because the film is subtle the characterization are not always drawn out explicitly. For example Blanche herself (played by Valerie Hobson) is a sort of Lady Macbeth character although this is implied rather than thrust at the viewer.

Like building Great Cathedrals I think the craft of making films like this has been lost; we simply no longer have the intellectual architecture ... Read More

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- Excellent!
A dark movie about a man's need for revenge, which eventually ends up completely destroying a Victorian family, entwining with the fate of Blanche, the poor relation who wants money & security. Absolutely stellar performances by Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger. A great scene in the beginning has the Blanche Fury character telling off a spoiled rich woman for whom she is the companion; it's just classic. "For years I've served women like you; spoiled, silly...Don't interrupt, that's what you are!" Her voice is like a whiplash! And when she falls into an affair with Adam, the Stewart Granger character...well, Hobson really lights up. You can't take your eyes off the screen. Great movie; deserves to be better known.

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