Top: Mr Dean (David Ferrar), Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr), and Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) Middle 2 & 3: Sister Ruth completes her transformation while (off camera) Sister Clodagh watches Bottom: Rejected by Mr Dean, a psychotic Sister Ruth returns to the House of St. Faith for revenge. Stills from Black Narcissus (1947), the eleventh of twenty-two collaborations between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel by Rumer Godden
Watch Black Narcissus, A Canterbury Tale and other Michael Powell classics at a special centenary season at the National Film Theatre and Edinburgh film festival.
For more information on Powell & Pressburger go to the comprehensive Powell & Pressburger Pages, which includes a review of The Life and Death of a Screenwriter (Faber & Faber 1996), a biography of Pressburger by his grandson Kevin Macdonald. See also this feature on the British Film Institute website.
