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Release Date: 1947 Cast: Nora Swinburne, Margaret Lockwood, Ernest Thesiger, Dennis Price, Patricia Roc
Categories: Movies, Melodrama, Crime Drama Jassy was a 1947 British film melodrama, based on a novel by Norah Lofts. It was a Gainsborough melodrama, the only one to be made in Technicolor.
Its plot involves Jassy Woodroofe, a wild gypsy girl (Margaret Lockwood) hired as a servant in a 19th century household.
During a social evening at Christopher Hatton's (Dennis Price) country estate, Mordelaine, his son Barney has a romantic tryst with Dilys Helmar (Patricia Roc).
But the next day, Barney discovers that his mother's jewels have been purloined by her husband, who has spent all night gambling with Dilys' father Nick (Basil... MORE
Jassy was a 1947 British film melodrama, based on a novel by Norah Lofts. It was a Gainsborough melodrama, the only one to be made in Technicolor.
Its plot involves Jassy Woodroofe, a wild gypsy girl (Margaret Lockwood) hired as a servant in a 19th century household.
During a social evening at Christopher Hatton's (Dennis Price) country estate, Mordelaine, his son Barney has a romantic tryst with Dilys Helmar (Patricia Roc).
But the next day, Barney discovers that his mother's jewels have been purloined by her husband, who has spent all night gambling with Dilys' father Nick (Basil Sydney). Barney arrives just in time to see Mordelaine lost on a single unlucky throw of the dice.
The Hattons are forced to move to a cottage in a nearby village. One day, while his horse is shod by blacksmith Bob Wicks, Barney sees some villagers tormenting a young woman, whom he rescues. She is Jassy Woodroffe, considered a witch because of her mother's gypsy blood (her father, Tom Woodroffe (John Laurie), is a respected village elder) and her gift of second sight.
Mrs Hatton hires Jassy as a domestic servant, over and above the maid Meggie's suspicions. Tom Woodroffe breaks up an altercation between LESS
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