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Post by topbilled on Oct 24, 2023 15:17:56 GMT
Join us on Sunday for a beautifully photographed motion picture.
Valerie Hobson stars in the title role.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 24, 2023 15:24:28 GMT
This is how Valerie Hobson appears in the film in rich Technicolor.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 24, 2023 15:50:58 GMT
Comments on YouTube about BLANCHE FURY (1948):
"I have always loved watching Stewart Granger in any movie and Valerie Hobson was a great actress, too. But the story was the real star of this movie."
"Excellent movie. Fate wins in the end."
"A very interesting movie with a lot of twists and turns."
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Post by topbilled on Oct 26, 2023 0:09:13 GMT
From hitchcockthelegend on the IMDb:
Blanche Fullerton (Valerie Hobson) accepts an invitation to go and work for her wealthy uncle out on the Clare estate. Though the estate is the ancestral home to the Fury family, the Fullertons take the name of Fury to be their own and run the estate as the rightful heirs. Philip Thorn (Stewart Granger) believes he is the rightful heir to the estate but just can't find the proof needed to claim what he feels is legally his.
Once Blanche arrives at the estate the men of the home have their heads turned, and from that point on Clare estate, and the whole Fury dynasty, is in danger of going down a very dark path that will only lead to pain and misery. Is the curse of the Fury clan about to strike again?
The film has everything that I personally look for in a Gothic classic picture. Two lead stars firing on all cylinders, both Stewart Granger and Valerie Hobson positively ooze grace and quality amongst the glorious color and corking costumes. The mansion of the piece is just perfect (Wootton Lodge in Staffordshire, England), a poetic stone built structure by day that is surrounded by rolling countryside, but by night it's a hauntingly monolithic place of dreams and simmering passions.
The dialect perfectly befits the British setting, where the story itself is crammed with dastardly motives, adulterous leanings and murderous intent. But above all else it's the ending that seals the deal, as our protagonists' respective futures unravel in a trip down some twisty road.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Oct 26, 2023 13:49:31 GMT
I only know Valerie Hobson from, "Kind Hearts and Coronets," wherein she is described as, "tall and slender as a lily," which she is and quite elegant, too. I thought she was great in that.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 26, 2023 16:07:42 GMT
By the way, I think the YT link I provided for BLANCHE FURY has ads.
I don't have an ad blocker.
The film can also be found here, without ad interruptions:
ok.ru/video/1089451723266
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Post by topbilled on Oct 28, 2023 22:37:44 GMT
From verna55 on the IMDb:
This dark, engrossing drama centers on a beautiful English girl (Valerie Hobson) who goes to live at her uncle's Gothic estate where she engages in an illicit affair with the head-strong steward (Stewart Granger). This is one of the Rank Studio's most impressive Gothic melodramas. It's rich in creepy, menacing atmosphere, and features solid direction by Marc Allegret and terrific performances by the multi-talented British cast. Most of these classic '40's British dramas were rightfully filmed in black and white. BLANCHE FURY was filmed in color, but color actually suits this story well and makes the wonderful Gothic architecture all the more enjoyable.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 29, 2023 14:34:35 GMT
The film is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel for those who are subscribers.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Oct 29, 2023 17:59:19 GMT
Valerie is thrilled to be chosen to star in our 50th film!
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Post by topbilled on Oct 29, 2023 18:40:51 GMT
Valerie is thrilled to be chosen to star in our 50th film!
Is it really our 50th? I haven't been keeping count. Hope our 100th film is just as special!
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 29, 2023 18:41:35 GMT
Me: "You look pensive, what are you thinking about? [adding quickly] Wait wait, don't answer if this is going to be the 'why don't fawns have the vote' conversation."
Fawn: "No, it's not that, although, we should have the vote because, well, never mind about that for now. What I was thinking about were our last two movies and if I would rather date Joan Fontaine or Peggy Cummins?"
Me: "You do remember when I introduced you to that cute fawn who lives down the hall from us; you shook for a few seconds and then shot back into our apartment like you had been fired from a gun."
Fawn: "I had forgotten something."
Me: [quietly sarcastic] "Yeah, your courage."
Fawn: "What?"
Me: "Nothing. I'd lean to Fontaine. Always go with the classic beauty."
Fawn: "Great advice. Fontaine was divorce four times. Cummins, however, was married once for fifty-one years until her husband passed away."
Me: "Then go with Cummins."
Fawn: "You're a big help."
Me: "Let's worry about this when you don't flee in terror at the sight of a woman."
Fawn: "Perhaps I'd have more confidence if fawns had the vote; if we could participate in the election process, [building up a head of steam] as not being allowed to vote marginalizes us as citizens by saying our views, our opinions and our feelings don't..."
Me: [cutting in] "Hey, the movie's about to start and I have to grab the Sno-Caps from the kitchen. Back in a sec."
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Post by topbilled on Oct 29, 2023 18:58:19 GMT
Ready to press start...
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Post by topbilled on Oct 29, 2023 19:00:33 GMT
It all begins very dramatically...
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 29, 2023 19:00:38 GMT
Muir Mathieson seems to be the Max Steiner of British cinema in the studio era.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 29, 2023 19:02:43 GMT
"She's very weak of course."
"Will she be alright?"
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