Caravan is a 1946 British drama film directed by Arthur Crabtree. It was one of the Gainsborough Melodramas and is based on a novel Caravan by Eleanor Smith. It tells of a late 19th century writer Richard Darrell , who saves Don Carlos from two robbers. Don Carlos gives Richard the task of taking a valuable necklace to Spain. Bidding farewell to his fiancée Oriana , Richard sets out. On the way he meets Wycroft , who assaults, robs and nearly kills Richard on behalf of his dastardly master Sir Francis Castteldow , an aristocrat who plans to steal Oriana from Richard. Oriana thinks... Richard is dead and marries Francis, whilst Richard loses his memory as a result of the assault and marries a gypsy girl, Rosal .
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| Release date: | June 3, 1946 |
| Directed by: | Arthur Crabtree |
| Runtime: | 80 Minutes |
| Producer: | Harold Huth |
| Editor: | A. Charles Knott |
| Music by: | Bretton Byrd |
| Cinematography: | Cyril J. Knowles, Stephen Dade |
| Screenplay by: | Roland Pertwee |
| Adapted from: | Caravan |