Hungry Hill (film)

Hungry Hill is a 1947 British film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price and Cecil Parker with a screenplay by Terence Young and Daphne du Maurier, from the 1943 novel by Daphne du Maurier.

Film rights were bought by Two Cities who assigned William Sistrom to produce.

[5] Brian Desmond Hurst was the director and it was decided to film on location in Ireland.

[8] The producers approached Sally Gray who turned it down as she did not wish to grow old on camera.

The few moments of effective cinema in "Hungry Hill" are so fleeting as to be easily forgotten, but the sequence wherein a staid ball is turned into a lively jig session by the infectious music of a fiddler from the town is a bit of expert staging which you probably won't see duplicated again soon.

The spontaneity and brilliant conception of this scene is almost sufficient cause to make one show more tolerance toward 'Hungry Hill' than it deserves.

[17] Britmovie called it a "stirring Irish saga based on the epic novel by Daphne du Maurier.