Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

Fanny by Gaslight (US title - Man of Evil) is a 1944 British drama film, produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a novel by Michael Sadleir (also adapted as a 1981 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327282/ mini-series]). It was one of its famous period-set "Gainsborough melodramas". Its US release was delayed for its breaking the Hays Purity Code, and 17 minutes were removed for this release.

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Cast:

• Phyllis Calvert
• Esma Cannon
• Helen Goss
• Stewart Granger
• Helen Haye
• Peter Jones
• Vi Kaley
• Jean Kent
• John Laurie
• Wilfrid Lawson
• Guy Le Feuvre
• Stuart Lindsell
• James Mason
• Cathleen Nesbitt
• Johnnie Schofield
• Margaretta Scott
• Cyril Smith
• Ann Stephens
• Nora Swinburne
• Gloria Sydney
• John Turnbull
• Amy Veness
• Ann Wilton