About
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Theatrical
Dec 26, 1956
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 29, 2009
Director
Writer
Producers
A. R. Shipman, Victor Hanbury, James A. Carter
Studio
Alliance Productions, Victor Hanbury Productions
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Cast
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Siobhán McKenna
Emily Beaudine
A
Anne Crawford
Bess Stanforth
M
Maxwell Reed
Dan
G
George Thorpe
Mr. Tallent
B
Barry Morse
Robert Stanforth
L
Liam Redmond
Father Cocoran
C
Cyril Smith
Joe
H
Honor Blackman
Julie Tallent
D
Denis Goacher
Saul Trevethick
G
Grant Tyler
Larry Tallent
N
Norman Shelley
Smithers
G
George Merritt
Constable
A
Ann Clery
Miss Foley
A
Arthur Hambling
Jacob
D
David Greene
David Price
I
Iris Vandeleur
Mrs. Smithers
