Madness of the Heart (1949)
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In this melodrama, a London girl falls happily in love with a Frenchman and immediately goes blind. Convinced her affliction is a Divine punishment for her sins, she joins a convent. The good sisters know she does not belong there and gently convince her to leave. Shortly after returning to secular life, the Frenchman marries her and they move to France to live in his parents' manor. There, the poor bride begins feeling like an unwelcome guest and like someone wants her dead, but cannot prove it. She expresses her fears, but no one believes her and after a particularly terrible fight, she miscarries. Feeling unloved by her own husband, the poor woman returns to England. There she undergoes a potentially dangerous but successful operation to restore her sight. Still upset her husband's lack of belief, she returns to France to prove her allegations. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Margaret Lockwood - Lydia Garth
- Kathleen Byron - Verite Faimont
- Thora Hird - Rosa
- Raymond Lovell - Comte de Vandiere
- David Hutcheson - Max Ffoliott
- Cathleen Nesbitt - Mother Superior
- Paul Anthony
- Sheila Raynor
- Frank Ling
- Peter Dunlop
- Arthur Reynolds
- Kynaston Reeves - Sir Robert Hammond
- Jack McNaughton - Attendant
- Sam Kydd
- Peter Illing - Dr. Matthieu
- Paul Dupuis - Paul de Vandiere
- Maxwell Reed - Joseph Rondolet
- Maurice Denham - Dr. Simon Blake
- Marie Burke - Comtesse de Vandiere
- Pamela Stirling - Felicite
- Joy Harrington - Sister Agnes
- Fletcher Lightfoot
- Gillian Maude
- Ann Heffernan
- George de Warfaz
- H.G. Stoker
- Marcel Poncin
- Gordon Littman
- Patricia Cutts
- Marie Ault - Nun
- Director(s):
- Charles Bennett
- Writer(s):
- Charles Bennett
- Producer(s):
- Richard Wainwright
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