Jassy (film)

Infobox Film
name = Jassy


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director = Bernard Knowles
producer = Sydney Box
writer = Norah Lofts (novel)
Dorothy Christie,
Campbell Christie,
Geoffrey Kerr
starring = Margaret Lockwood,
Patricia Roc,
Dennis Price,
Ernest Thesiger,
Nora Swinburne
music = Henry Geehl
cinematography = Geoffrey Unsworth
editing = A. Charles Knott
distributor = Gainsborough Pictures, General Film Distributors (UK);
Universal Pictures (USA)
released = 1947 (UK);
1948 (USA)
runtime = 100 min
country = United Kingdom
language = English
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amg_id = 1:97066
imdb_id = 0039509

"Jassy" was a 1947 British film melodrama, based on a novel by Norah Lofts. Its plot involves Jassy Woodroofe, a wild gypsy girl (Margaret Lockwood) hired as a servant in a 19th century household.

The story starts off with Christopher Hatton (Dennis Price) gambling away his fortune and house Mordelain. He subsequently shoots himself and his son Barney and widow (Nora Swinburne) move into a small cottage. Jassy is hired as their "maid of all work". She falls in love with Barney. After her father (John Laurie) is killed my Nick Helmar (Basil Sydney) she is sent away to work as a maid at a girls school where she befriends the daughter of Helmar, Dilys (Patricia Roc). Both girls return to the house (Jassy as passing herself off as a school friend). Jassy marries Helmar (with a plan to avenge her father's death and return the house to Barney) and asks that as a wedding present the house is put in her name. Helmar falls while riding and while being nursed better the mute maid Lindy (Esme Canon), taken on by Jassy out of pity, overhears Jassy's wish to kill him and promptly poisons him.

At the end of the film Jassy marries Barney and they live in the house that she rightfully restored to him.

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*imdb title|0039509|Jassy