Daughter of Darkness (1948)

Plot Summary

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...

Full Cast & Characters

Siobhán McKenna

Emily Beaudine

Anne Crawford

Bess Stanforth

Maxwell Reed

Dan

George Thorpe

Mr. Tallent

Barry Morse

Robert Stanforth

Liam Redmond

Father Cocoran

Cyril Smith

Joe

Honor Blackman

Julie Tallent

Denis Goacher

Saul Trevethick

Grant Tyler

Larry Tallent

Norman Shelley

Smithers

George Merritt

Constable

Director & Crew

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