until the end, but he is repulsed by the magnitude of her crimes and leaves her to die alone. After her death, Caroline and Ralph reunite, determined to put the past behind them and live happily together. Cast Margaret Lockwood as Barbara Worth James Mason as Captain Jerry Jackson Patricia Roc as Caroline Griffith Jones as Sir Ralph Skelton Michael Rennie as Kit Locksby Felix Aylmer as Hogarth Enid Stamp Taylor as Lady Kingsclere Francis Lister as Lord Kingsclere Beatrice Varley as Aunt Moll Amy Dalby as Aunt Doll Martita Hunt as Cousin Agatha David Horne as Martin Worth Emrys Jones as Ned Cotterill Helen Goss as Mistress Betsy Muriel Aked as Mrs. Munce Production Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton was published in 1944. Mason, Lockwood and Arliss' involvement in the movie adaptation was announced in November of that year. In a 1945 issue of Picturegoer, Arliss said that it was Eleanor Smith (author of the book which had inspired his 1943 hit The Man in Grey) who gave him King-Hall's novel. He went on to say:I told Maurice Ostrer of Gainsborough Pictures that I had found my ideal film subject and found that he had already purchased the rights himself! The character of Barbara is wicked enough even for me, and how vastly interesting is this most complex character as it develops through the action of the story.Lockwood later wrote in her memoirs, "This was an enchantingly 'wicked' part. At first, as usual, I did not like the thought of playing a villainous role again, but it was such a good one that I knew it would be madness to refuse it." Stewart Granger turned down the role that Mason played. Lockwood practiced riding for the role and added a black beauty spot. Caroline, the character played by Roc, is a movie script addition, not existing in the novel. Shooting Filming started March 1945. The film was made at Gainsborough Studios in London with location shooting at Blickling Hall in Norfolk. Lockwood wrote "we enjoyed making that film together. We did not enjoy remaking it, exactly one year later" when they had to re shoot scenes for American censors. British reception The Wicked Lady was the most popular film at the British box office in 1946. According to Kinematograph Weekly the "biggest winner" at the box office in 1946 Britain was The Wicked Lady,