Black Narcissus

Going about business in their Himalayan convent, Sister Superior Ruth (Deborah Kerr) is surprised when local agent Dean (David Farrar) springs Kanchi (Jean Simmons) on her, recruiting Sister Briony (Judith Furse) for support, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus, 1947.

Outcast and bored native girl Kanchi (Jean Simmons) amuses herself with a dance until the "Little General," (Sabu), also taken in by the convent, intrudes, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus, 1947.

Sister Superior Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) confronts Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron), who's cracking up, now out of her habit and ready to leave their Himalayan convent, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus, 1947

Not a frame of film shot in Asia, the nuns are reading a voiced-over letter from Mr. Dean (David Farrar) about what they're getting into, early in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus, 1947.

Mother Dorothea (Nancy Roberts) briefing new and young Sister Superior Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) regarding staff (Judith Furse, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird, Kathleen Byron) for the new mission in the Himalayas, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus, 1947.

First the Rank Organisation gong and "The Archers" trademark, then technicolor cinematography by Jack Cardiff, opening Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus, 1947, starring Deborah Kerr.