Svengali is a 1954 British drama film directed and written by Noel Langley and starring Hildegard Knef, Donald Wolfit and Terence Morgan.

The film was made at Walton Studios near London with sets designed by art director Frederick Pusey and costumes by Beatrice Dawson.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Svengali is a fairly faithful screen adaptation of du Maurier's Trilby, and is very handsomely dressed, mainly following the author's original illustrations ... Hildegarde Neff's Trilby is handsome but spiritless, and her Irish accent is doubtful, while Terence Morgan makes a colourless hero.

Unfortunately, however, the script and direction do not match up to this one performance; and, fairly or not, du Maurier's story re-appears in this version as a badly dated, over-coloured and somewhat tedious melodrama.

"[7] Kine Weekly wrote: Hildegarde Neff, skilfully dubbed by Madame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, [...] has beauty and intelligence as Trilby, and Terence Morgan is a handsome, perfectly-mannered, though somewhat ingenuous, Billy.

Moreover, its lavish décor cleverly captures the spirit and the mood of its gaslight period.”[8] Leslie Halliwell said: "Flatulent remake which does have the virtue of following the original book illustrations but is otherwise unpersuasive.

The Eastmancolor production aims for an evocative atmosphere akin to John Huston's gorgeous Moulin Rouge (1952), photographed in Technicolor by Oswald Morris.