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Most Interesting Screenplay | 1946 | Charles
Best Commentary | 2019
Best DVD Classic Film Release | 2004
U.S. distributors thought that the original print of the movie was too long. Therefore, the golfing tale and the Christmas ghost tale were cut. This confused American audiences who could not understand what Michael Allen, from the Christmas ghost tale, was doing in the nightmare montage at the end.
Cosmologists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, and Hermann Bondi developed the Steady State theory of the universe, an alternative to the Big Bang, after seeing this movie. They said that the circular nature of the plot inspired the theory.
What Sally is told of Francis Kent being murdered by his sister is based on true events. Francis (aged nearly four years old) was murdered at Road Hill House in 1860. His half-sister Constance (sixteen at the time of the murder) was arrested and put on trial in 1865. After serving twenty years in jail, she was released and emigrated to Australia, where she died at the age of 100, only one year before the release of this movie. In 2008, author Kate Summerscale released a book titled "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher", with the theory that Constance had either not acted alone or had falsely confessed to shield another member of the family. There was also a movie based on the book, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House (2011).
Googie Withers, when interviewed on an Australian television midday show in the 1980s, revealed that only one take was possible in the mirror smashing scene as Ealing Studios' budget didn't extend to more than one mirror. So she gave it her best shot.
According to Stephen Bourne's 2005 book "Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music", the depiction of Elisabeth Welch's character Beulah was "a breakthrough in the portrayal of black women in films... for the first time in a film, a black woman is portrayed as independent, successful and resourceful. (Welch) played an important part in the development of the plot, and was featured in the film's billing with such eminent players as Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Mervyn Johns, and Frederick Valk." (Source: Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, Stephen Bourne, Scarecrow Press, 2005)
"Hearse Driver: Just room for one inside, sir."
"[Sally's mother has shown up to drag her away to a party for her godfather Edwin] Sally O'Hara: But, Mother, I can't! You see, this is Mr. Craig, and I'm one of the characters in his dream! Mrs O'Hara: [shakes his hand briskly] Oh, how do you do? Such fun, charades! So, you do understand, don't you, and poor Edwin's so terribly sensitive. Now, come along! Sally O'Hara: Mummy, you mustn't! You see, Mr. Craig's going to hit me - savagely! Mrs O'Hara: Oh, well, I'm sure he can hit somebody else instead. Now, come along, dear!"
