A film version of George Moore's famous novel " Esther Waters" telling of a girl's struggle to bring up an illegitimate child at the end of the 19th Century.
Ian Dalrymple was a British screenwriter, film director and producer. Born at Johannesburg, South Africa, he was educated at Cambridge University. Initially, he worked as an editor at Gaumont-British pictures and Gainsborough Pictures, later turning to screenwriting. During World War II, he was a... producer for the Crown Film Unit, the government run agency for information and propaganda films, in particular working, and forming a close friendship, with Humphrey Jennings. Later, Dalrymple worked for MGM-Korda as a producer. He formed Wessex Productions as his own company, making his films at Pinewood Studios. He died at London, in 1989.more