The Blind Goddess

The Blind Goddess (1948)

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.

Date of release
1948-09-14
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Drama
Director
Harold French

Casting

Interesting facts

The Blind Goddess is a 1948 British courtroom drama film directed by Harold French and starring Eric Portman, Anne Crawford and Michael Denison. The screenplay concerns a secretary who sets out to expose his boss, Lord Brasted, for embezzlement. It was based on a popular 1947 play of the same title by noted barrister Patrick Hastings.

Production

Patrick Hastings was a successful lawyer who wrote plays in his spare time, of which Blind Goddess was most popular. It premiered in 1948, a few years before Hastings' death.

Film rights were purchased by Gainsborough Productions, then part of the Rank Organisation. Gainsborough head of production Sydney Box worked on the screenplay with his wife Muriel Box. It was filmed in July 1948 at Islington Studios with sets designed by the art director Norman Arnold.

It was the film debut of Claire Bloom. She had auditioned for the part of Ophelia in Hamlet and been unsuccessful, but her screen test impressed the Rank Organisation and they put her under contract.

Betty Box, who produced, requested the original script be modified so that Lady Brasted did not take a lover but only pretended to.

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