Jane Eyre (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner, Margaret O'Brien
Synopsis:
Jane, an orphan girl, enters the employ of Rochester, a dour bachelor in need of a governess for his adopted French daughter. Gradually she becomes aware of another presence in the house and begins to guess at a terrible secret in her employer even as she falls in love with him.
Review:
Classic adaptation of a much filmed Brontë favourite: that is to say, bowdlerised perhaps, slightly stiff in its acting, but possessing a visual mastery and homogeneity that only a Hollywood studio production (Fox) could confer. Strong on atmosphere, therefore, which is exactly what this gothic piece needs.
Country: US
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner, Margaret O'Brien
Synopsis:
Jane, an orphan girl, enters the employ of Rochester, a dour bachelor in need of a governess for his adopted French daughter. Gradually she becomes aware of another presence in the house and begins to guess at a terrible secret in her employer even as she falls in love with him.
Review:
Classic adaptation of a much filmed Brontë favourite: that is to say, bowdlerised perhaps, slightly stiff in its acting, but possessing a visual mastery and homogeneity that only a Hollywood studio production (Fox) could confer. Strong on atmosphere, therefore, which is exactly what this gothic piece needs.
Country: US
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner, Margaret O'Brien
Synopsis:
Jane, an orphan girl, enters the employ of Rochester, a dour bachelor in need of a governess for his adopted French daughter. Gradually she becomes aware of another presence in the house and begins to guess at a terrible secret in her employer even as she falls in love with him.
Review:
Classic adaptation of a much filmed Brontë favourite: that is to say, bowdlerised perhaps, slightly stiff in its acting, but possessing a visual mastery and homogeneity that only a Hollywood studio production (Fox) could confer. Strong on atmosphere, therefore, which is exactly what this gothic piece needs.