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Black Narcissus is a 1947 Technicolor ___MASK45___ Drama film by the British writer - producer - director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden . It is a psychological drama about the emotional tensions of jealousy and lust within a convent of nuns in an isolated valley in the Himalayas , and features in the cast Deborah Kerr , Kathleen Byron , Sabu , David Farrar , Flora Robson , Esmond Knight , and Jean Simmons . North West England , one of nine ___MASK99___ regions of England , consists of the five counties of Cheshire , Cumbria , Greater Manchester , Lancashire and Merseyside . The North West had a population of 7 , 052 , 000 in 2011 . It is the third most populated region in the United Kingdom after the South East and Greater London . Emeric Pressburger ( 5 December 19025 February 1988 ) was a Hungarian British ___MASK42___ , ___MASK6___ , and producer . He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell , in an award - winning collaboration partnership known as the Archers and produced a series of films , notably " 49th Parallel " ( 1941 ), " The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp " ( 1943 ), " A Matter of Life and Death " ( 1946 , also called " Stairway to Heaven "), " Black Narcissus " ( 1947 ), " The Red Shoes " ( 1948 ), and " The Tales of Hoffmann " ( 1951 ). Cheshire ( or ; archaically the County Palatine of Chester ; abbreviated Ches .) is a county in North West England , bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north , Derbyshire to the east , Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Wales to the west ( bordering Wrexham and Flintshire ). Cheshire ' s county town is Chester ; the largest town is Warrington . The Silver Fleet ( 1943 ) is a British war film written and directed by Vernon Sewell and Gordon Wellesley and produced by Powell & Pressburger under the banner of " The Archers ". Michael C . Chorlton ( 27 December 1913 -- 25 October 1951 ) was an English film editor and , occasionally , ___MASK92___ . He was born in Disley , Cheshire . He particularly worked with Powell and Pressburger , including editing The Silver Fleet and the motorcycle sequences for A Matter of Life and Death Other films he edited include Juggernaut , Love on the Dole , The Volunteer , the Charters and Caldicott vehicle Crook ' s Tour and The Day Will Dawn . Chorlton died in a plane crash near Shottesbrooke , Berkshire in his own plane on 25 October 1951 . He was on a flight from the West London Aero Club , White Waltham with a local man . Manchester is a ___MASK51___ city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester , England , with a population of 514 , 414 . It lies within the ___MASK30___ ' s second - most populous urban area , with a population of 2 . 55 million . Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south , the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation . The local authority is Manchester City Council . Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England , with a population of 2 . 8 million . It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the ___MASK30___ and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs : Bolton , Bury , Oldham , Rochdale , Stockport , Tameside , Trafford , Wigan , and the cities of Manchester and Salford . Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972 ; and designated a City Region on 1 April 2011 . The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines . It is mostly in northern Derbyshire , but also includes parts of Cheshire , Greater Manchester , Staffordshire and Yorkshire . An area of great ___MASK46___ , it is split into the northern Dark Peak , where most of the moorland is found and the geology is gritstone , and the southern White Peak , where most of the population lives and the geology is mainly limestone . Disley is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire , England . It is located on the very edge of the Peak District , in the Goyt Valley , very close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills , and south of Stockport , Greater Manchester . The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 4 , 294 . To the north of the village , the River Goyt and the Peak Forest Canal , which opened in 1800 , passes along the edge of the village . Today it is a dormitory village retaining a semi - rural character . A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring Eric Portman , Sheila Sim , Dennis Price and Sgt . John Sweet ; Esmond ___MASK40___ provided narration and played several small roles . For the postwar American release , Raymond Massey narrated and Kim ___MASK35___ was added to the film . The film was made in black and white , and was the first of two collaborations between Powell and Pressburger and cinematographer Erwin Hillier . Wrexham (; ) is a large town in north Wales , between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley alongside the border with England . In Wrexham County Borough , it is the largest town in north Wales and an administrative , ___MASK19___ , retail and educational centre . The Life and Death of ___MASK55___ Blimp is a 1943 romantic drama war film written , produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers . It stars Roger Livesey , Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook . The title derives from the satirical ___MASK55___ Blimp comic strip by David Low but the story itself is original . The film is renowned for its Technicolor cinematography . Gordon Wong Wellesley ( 8 December 1894  1980 ) was an Australian - born ___MASK42___ and ___MASK26___ of Chinese descent . Born in Sydney in 1894 he wrote over thirty screenplays in the United States and Britain , often collaborating with the ___MASK92___ Carol Reed . He began his career in Hollywood in the early 1930s and worked in Britain beginning about 1935 . He was married to the scriptwriter Katherine Strueby . He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing , Original Story at the 1942 Oscars for " Night Train to Munich ", which was based on his novel , " Report on a Fugitive ". The British film - making partnership of Michael Powell ( 1905  1990 ) and Emeric Pressburger ( 1902  1988 ) together often known as The Archers , the name of their production company  made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s .  24 films between 1939 and 1972  were mainly derived from original stories by Pressburger with the ___MASK70___ written by both Pressburger & Powell . Powell did most of the directing while Pressburger did most of the work of the producer and also assisted with the editing , especially the way the music was used . Unusually , the pair shared a writer - director - producer credit for most of their films . The best known of these are " The Life and Death of ___MASK55___ Blimp " ( 1943 ), " A Canterbury Tale " ( 1944 ), " A Matter of Life and Death " ( 1946 ), " Black Narcissus " ( 1947 ) and " The Red Shoes " ( 1948 ). Wales is a country that is part of the ___MASK30___ and the island of Great Britain . It is bordered by England to the east , the Irish Sea to the north and west , and the Bristol Channel to the south . It had a population in 2011 of 3 , 063 , 456 and has a total area of . Wales has over of coastline and is largely mountainous , with its higher peaks in the north and central areas , including Snowdon , its highest summit . The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable , maritime climate . Vernon Campbell Sewell ( 4 July 1903  21 June 2001 ) was a British ___MASK6___ , screenwriter , producer , writer and , briefly , an actor . Derbyshire ( or ; abbreviated Derbys . or Derbs .) is a county in the East Midlands of England . A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire , containing the southern extremity of the Pennine range of hills which extend into the north of the county . The county contains part of the National Forest , and borders on Greater Manchester to the northwest , West Yorkshire to the north , South Yorkshire to the northeast , Nottinghamshire to the east , Leicestershire to the southeast , Staffordshire to the west and southwest and Cheshire also to the west . Kinder ___MASK5___ , at 636 metres ( 2 , 087 ft ), is the highest point in the county , whilst Trent Meadows , where the River Trent leaves Derbyshire , is its lowest point at 27 metres ( 89 ft ). The River Derwent is the county ' s longest river at 66 miles ( 106 km ), and runs roughly north to south through the county . In 2003 the Ordnance Survey placed Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms ( near Swadlincote ) as the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain . Michael Latham Powell ( 30 September 1905  19 February 1990 ) was an English ___MASK6___ , celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger . Through their production company " The Archers ", they together wrote , produced and directed a series of classic British films , notably " 49th Parallel " ( 1941 ), " The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp " ( 1943 ), " A Matter of Life and Death " ( 1946 , also called " Stairway to Heaven "), " Black Narcissus " ( 1947 ), " The Red Shoes " ( 1948 ), and " The Tales of Hoffmann " ( 1951 ). His later controversial 1960 film " Peeping Tom ", while today considered a classic , was so vilified on first release that his career was seriously damaged .