Daughter of Darkness

Daughter of Darkness

In her eyes... evil. On her lips... doom.

NR 1948 · 91 min · ★ 6.0 · Thriller, Drama, Horror

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...

Directed by Lance Comfort · Written by Max Catto

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Siobhán McKenna Emily Beaudine
Anne Crawford Bess Stanforth
Maxwell Reed Dan
George Thorpe Mr. Tallent
Barry Morse Robert Stanforth
Liam Redmond Father Cocoran
Cyril Smith Joe
Honor Blackman Julie Tallent
Denis Goacher Saul Trevethick
Grant Tyler Larry Tallent
Norman Shelley Smithers
George Merritt Constable

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