TY - ADVS AU - Powell,Michael AU - Pressburger,Emeric AU - Kerr,Deborah AU - Sabu AU - Farrar,David AU - Robson,Flora AU - Knight,Esmond AU - Simmons,Jean AU - Godden,Rumer ED - Independent Producers, Ltd. ED - Archers (Firm) ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - Black narcissus T2 - The Criterion collection U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2010/// CY - [Irvington, NY] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Servites KW - India KW - Drama KW - Nuns KW - English KW - Sexual behavior KW - Feature films KW - England KW - Himalaya Mountains N1 - Adapted from the novel by Rumer Godden; Originally produced as motion picture in 1947; Photographer, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Reginald Mills ; music, Brian Easdale ; production designer, Alfred Junge; Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron N2 - Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novice assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle with her own past that will prove the ultimate test of her devotion and faith ER -