A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the bright lights of the big city and for the arms of her artist lover. Unfortunately, her husband is all too aware of this.
Acting
Sally Gray's eyes do ALL the talking
Costume
Ballet glamour crashes into mud-stained reality
Direction
Haynes squeezes tension from silence and side-eyes
Director
Stanley Haynes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sally Gray was a genuine West End star who retired at 31 to marry a baronet. Art imitating life much?
This was Gainsborough Studios pivoting from wartime escapism to 'women's pictures'—basically 1940s prestige trauma cinema.
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