Cinematography:
Jack CardiffComposer:
Brian EasdaleCast:
Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, David Farrar, Sabu, Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron, Judith Furse, Jenny Laird, Margaret Scudamore, May HallattPlots(1)
Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) leads a group of Anglican nuns to a remote Himalayan range of mountains, there to set up a mission in an abandoned harem. This is her first position of authority and she finds both her physical and her spiritual limits being taxed as she has to maintain order and discipline in a claustrophobically hostile environment. Slowly but surely, however, the privations and hardship they endure, the extremes of climate and the peculiar amorality of the local natives all combine to slowly corrupt the women's faith, pushing them further into jealousy, anger and madness. (Network)
(more)Cast
Deborah Kerr
UK
Best movies:
Julius Caesar (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Flora Robson
UK
Best movies:
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
David Farrar
UK
Best movies:
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Sea Chase (1955)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Sabu
India
Best movies:
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Elephant Boy (1937)
Esmond Knight
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Hamlet (1948)
Jean Simmons
UK
Best movies:
The Big Country (1958)
Hamlet (1948)
Spartacus (1960)
Kathleen Byron
UK
Best movies:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Perfect Strangers (2001) (series)
Judith Furse
UK
Best movies:
The Browning Version (1951)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Jenny Laird
UK
Best movies:
Black Narcissus (1947)
Village of the Damned (1960)
The Masks of Death (1984) (TV movie)
Margaret Scudamore
UK
Best movies:
Black Narcissus (1947)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
May Hallatt
UK
Best movies:
Room at the Top (1959)
Separate Tables (1958)
Black Narcissus (1947)