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London/Vanguard. Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Producer David O. Selznick; Screenplay Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Camera Christopher Challis; Editor Reginald Mills; Music Brian Easdale; Art Director Hein Heckroth

Jennifer Jones
David Farrar
Cyril Cusack
Sybil Thorndike
Edward Chapman
Hugh Griffith

Powell and Pressburger freely adapted the novel by Mary Webb which has English fox-hunting as its background.

Principal character, Jennifer Jones, lives with her father in the mountains. A simple girl, steeped in local mysticisms, when asked by her father if she will marry the first man to propose, she agrees. The first proposal is from the local parson, but after the wedding, she is induced to run away with the squire and is brought back home by her husband.

Primarily a simple yarn about simple people, it is without finesse, polish or sophistication. Dialog just about emerges from the monosyllabical state.

Jones makes the character of Hazel Woodus a pathetic, winsome creature. It is a genuine and at times glowing performance.

(Color) Extract of a review from 1950. Running time: 110 MIN.

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