© Monogram Pictures Corp.; 25Sep49; LP2629.

BLACK NARCISSUS. The Archers Film Productions, London. Released in the U. S. by Universal-International, c1948. Presented by J. Arthur Rank. 99 min., sd., color, 35mm. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden.

Summary: A drama about five Anglican nuns who organize a convent school in an abandoned palace in the Himalayan mountains. They experience loneliness and ultimate failure in attempting to cope with ignorance, delinquency, cynicism, and human passions.

Credits: Produced, directed and written by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; editor, Reginald Mills; music, Brian Easdale.

Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight.

Appl. author: Universal Pictures Co., Inc.

© Independent Producers Ltd.; 3Jun48; LP1925.

THE BLACK PARACHUTE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1944. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Jack Fier; director, Lew Landers; story, Paul Gangelin; screenplay, Clarence Upson Young; film editor, Otto Meyer.

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 22Apr44; LP12613.