Blanche Fury (GBR 1948, Marc Allégret).

Credit: National Science and Media Museum Bradford (Kodak Film Samples Collection).

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Contemporary Reception:

Anonymous (1948): A Romantic Drama Imported From Britain. In: The New York Times, 24 November 1948, p. 20. View Quote
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Anonymous (1948): Blanche Fury. In: The Exhibitor, 40,19, Sep., p. 2470. View Quote
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Anonymous (1948): Blanche Fury Sombre British Costume Melodrama. In: Film Bulletin, 16,18, Aug., p. 14. View Quote
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Anonymous (1948): Reviews of New Films. Blanche Fury. In: The Film Daily, 42, Aug., p. 7. View Quote
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Selected Analyses:

Street, Sarah (2012): Colour Films in Britain. The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–55. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, on pp. 148–151. View Quote

Watkins, Liz (2010): Colour Consciousness and Design in Blanche Fury as Technicolor Melodrama. In: Journal of British Cinema and Television, 7,1, pp. 53–68. PDF Online

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