A film was manufactured primarily at Pinewood Studios with some scenes shot within Leonardslee Gardens, West Sussex, the front yard of an Indian army retired person which got appropriate trees & plants for the Indian setting. It makes extensive apply of matte paintings and large shell landscape to indicate a mountainous environment of the Himalaywhen, likewise as a few shell system for motion shots of the convent.

Jack Cardiff won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and for Alfred Junge was similarly recognised for his Art Direction.

The class action of Anglican nuns travel to the remote location around the Himalayas to install the school & hospital, sole to buy themselves more and more distracted per sensualism of their surroundings in a born-again seraglio. A Sister inside charge (played by Deborah Kerr) is attempting to forget a failing romance home around Ireland and tensions mount when she has to treat by owning ii men - a single a local British professional (David Farrar) and a more a immature heir to the potty of the princely state (Sabu) who uses a scent 'Black Narcissus' imported from either England. the film builds to a extremely-charged striking climax.