“Romance, 1870. Minister's bastard loves his secretary, who saves her from lustful lord.” --“British Film Catalogue.”
“Fanny by Gaslight today survives as one of the best of the successful period romances and melodramas that Gainsborough turned out as a calculated escape route from wartime rigours and austerity. Replete with duels and bordellos, purity, nobility, lechery, and class distinction, it's a model of its kind, and vigorous, well designed costume melodrama. Our print is of the full original version.” --W.K.E.