Daughter of Darkness (1948)
장르 : 스릴러
상영시간 : 1시간 31분
연출 : Lance Comfort
각본 : Max Catto
시놉시스
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) 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 (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) 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...
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전쟁의 상처가 채 가시지 않은 때, 술집에서 실수로 사람을 죽이고 경찰에 쫓기던 빌이 독신간호원 제인의 아파트에 뛰어든다. 둘 다 외로웠던 이들은 서로 정이 들어 잠시 즐겁게 지내지만 빌의 충동적이고 난폭한 행동은 제인을 실망시킨다. 새 출발을 약속한 빌은 병원의 트럭운전사로 취직하여 둘은 앞날을 약속하는데 이 때 술집사건을 목격한 해리가 빌을 협박한다. 빌은 그를 칼로 찔러 다시 범죄를 저지른다. 빌은 제인의 권유에 따라 자수하고 새로운 삶을 설계한다.
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