Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

Directed by

Anthony Asquith

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in 1870s London uncovers secrets about her father's past after his sudden death. She gets caught up in a web of scandal and danger involving a man she loves.

melodramaticperiodtensedarkromanticold-fashionedsensational

What happens

Fanny by Gaslight (US title – Man of Evil) is a 1944 British drama film, directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a 1940 novel by Michael Sadleir (also adapted as a 1981 TV serial). It was the second of its famous period-set "Gainsborough melodramas", following The Man in Grey (1943). Its US release was delayed for its breaking the Hays Purity Code and 17 minutes were removed. Stewart Granger later said he "didn't like" the film because of its "drippy characters" but thought "Asquith was much the best of those directors I worked with at Gainsborough." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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