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Daughter of Darkness

Daughter of Darkness

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 21, 1948

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Thriller, Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

Daughter of Darkness

Production Companies

Alliance Productions, Victor Hanbury Productions

Director

Lance Comfort

Description

In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...