Ben Travers adapted Sheridan Le Fanu's Victorian tale of a young orphan forced to live with her sinister uncle. The novel only really gets going in the last fifty pages and this is only partly hidden by this screenplay. Still, Jean Simmons makes a pleasing, if dim, heroine. Derrick de Marney is too young in the title role but Katina Paxinou has a great time as the drunken French governess. Of the rest of the cast only John Laurie as the incompetent butler makes any impact whatsoever.
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Ingrid Bergman is the posh Irish lass leading a life of misery in colonial Australia with the man with whom she eloped. This unsuccessful melodrama from Alfred Hitchcock was scuppered by poor casting and the remnants of the 10-minute take technique he tried out in Rope. Script adapt . Kay Callard has the title role in this low-budget stinker. She's trying to expose drug smugglers if you're interested.