Blanche Fury

A stunning Technicolor British melodrama showing from an original post-war nitrate print.

  • Director

    Marc Allégret

  • With

    Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Gough

  • UK 1947. 94min

  • 35mm nitrate

  • Certificate

    PG

When beautiful young orphan Blanche arrives at her uncle’s country estate, she becomes embroiled in the Fury family feud. Philip, the darkly handsome stable hand – actually the illegitimate son of the original owner – is determined to secure what he regards as rightfully his. Valerie Hobson blends passion and vulnerability as Blanche, while Stewart Granger shows why he was one of Britain’s top post-war heartthrobs. Guy Green’s colour cinematography gives a vibrancy to the lavish period costumes by Motley and to the Victorian décor of the manor house. This nitrate print was struck in 1947, when the film was first released, and would have been seen by audiences at the time. It came to the BFI National Archive from Rank Film Laboratories in 1980, at a time when many studios were donating their nitrate collections.

Josephine Botting