The Blind Goddess is a 1948 British courtroom drama film directed by Harold French and starring Eric Portman, Anne Crawford and Michael Denison.

A valet shoots dead a man (later named as a Czech nobleman, one Count Mikla), steals a bundle of documents, and sets up the crime scene to look like a suicide.

Derek Waterhouse sits in an exclusive restaurant with a young woman, Mary Dearing; who is about to travel abroad to visit a sick friend.

Lord Brasted meets with Mary's father, Sir John Dearing, a senior advocate, to allege that Waterhouse is trying to blackmail him.

Lady Brasted tries to lean on her former relationship with Waterhouse to convince him to change his story (as he has already told the PM, it is unclear what this would achieve).

Waterhouse claims that Brasted offered him a three year assignment in West Africa plus £10,000 which he interpreted as a bribe to keep silent.

Lady Brasted reveals to Sir John that she has a love letter from Waterhouse which would incriminate him in terms of motive.

Later that evening, Sir John Dearing telephones Brasted to request a meeting for the next morning to discuss these developments.

Patrick Hastings was a successful lawyer who wrote plays in his spare time, of which Blind Goddess was most popular.

It was filmed in July 1948 at Islington Studios with sets designed by the art director Norman Arnold.

She had auditioned for the part of Ophelia in Hamlet and been unsuccessful, but her screen test impressed the Rank Organisation and they put her under contract.

[12] Betty Box, who produced, requested the original script be modified so that Lady Brasted did not take a lover but only pretended to.

[14] The New York Times wrote, "Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess...But the (film), which arrived at the Forty-second Street Embassy yesterday, illustrates that justice is not blind precisely but merely myopic and rather routine";[15] while TV Guide noted, "good performances help keep this rather stagy and stiff adaptation moving.