Blanche Fury (1948) on Netflix
NR19481h 30mDramaRomanceThriller
Penniless Blanche Fuller becomes governess to her rich uncle's granddaughter at Clare Hall. There she meets Philip Thorn, the estate's steward, who believes the house should be his.
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Plot summary
After her parents die, Blanche Fuller works as a domestic servant and then accepts an invitation from Simon Fury, a rich uncle she has never met, to be governess to his granddaughter Lavinia at Clare Hall. She meets Philip Thorn, who resembles the Fury portrait over the mantel so closely that she takes him for her cousin Laurence; he is in fact the illegitimate son of the estate's former owner and works there as steward. Simon, once a Fuller, took the Fury name on inheriting and asks Blanche to do the same. Thorn resents serving strangers on land he believes should be his, and a lawyer has spent months hunting proof of his legitimacy. Blanche marries her cousin Laurence for position and security, and she and Thorn begin an affair.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blanche Fury (1948)
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- Producer Anthony Havelock-Allan thought the most exciting moment in the story was a murder committed by a "gypsy woman" who was really a man, but Stewart Granger refused to play the killer dressed as a woman, so the scene was lost.
- Producer Anthony Havelock-Allan said there was a real hatred in the film as well as love, and the public didn't want it; he said Cineguild more or less broke up over Blanche Fury.
- Blanche Fury's plot is based on the Stanfield Hall slayings of 1848: tenant farmer James Blomfield Rush shot dead Isaac Jermy and his son Isaac Jermy Jr. at their mansion in Norwich. Rush had mortgaged and remortgaged his farm without improving its output.
- Valerie Hobson was married to the film's producer, Anthony Havelock-Allan, who meant Blanche Fury as a "loving gift" to make her a leading lady again after she had just had a baby.
