Fanny by Gaslight (film)
Fanny by Gaslight (US title – Man of Evil) is a 1944 British drama film, directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a 1940 novel by Michael Sadleir (also adapted as a 1981 TV serial).
| Fanny by Gaslight | |
|---|---|
UK promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Anthony Asquith |
| Written by | Doreen Montgomery additional dialogue Aimée Stuart |
| Based on | Fanny by Gaslight by Michael Sadleir |
| Produced by | Edward Black |
| Starring | Phyllis Calvert James Mason Wilfrid Lawson Stewart Granger |
| Cinematography | Arthur Crabtree |
| Edited by | R. E. Dearing |
| Music by | Cedric Mallabey |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
Release dates | May 1944 (UK) 1946 (France) 1948 (USA) |
Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £90,000 |
| Box office | $17,285 (US rentals) £300,000 (UK) 786,581 admissions (France) |
It was the second of its famous period-set "Gainsborough melodramas", following The Man in Grey (1943). Its US release was delayed for its breaking the Hays Purity Code and 17 minutes were removed.
Stewart Granger later said he "didn't like" the film because of its "drippy characters" but thought "Asquith was much the best of those directors I worked with at Gainsborough."
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