Jassy (film)

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Jassy
Directed by	Bernard Knowles
Produced by	Sydney Box
Written by	Norah Lofts (novel) Dorothy Christie, Campbell Christie, Geoffrey Kerr
Starring	Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price, Ernest Thesiger, Nora Swinburne
Music by	Henry Geehl
Cinematography	Geoffrey Unsworth
Editing by	A. Charles Knott
Distributed by	Gainsborough Pictures, General Film Distributors (UK); Universal Pictures (USA)
Release date(s)	1947 (UK); 1948 (USA)
Running time	100 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
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Jassy was a 1947 British film melodrama, based on a novel by Norah Lofts. Its plot involves Jassy, a wild gypsy girl (Margaret Lockwood) hired as a servant in a 19th century household who falls in love with and marries her master (Dennis Price), who then comes to a sticky end. Jassy is accused of his murder, but all is not as it seems.