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24/12/1943 Drama, Romance 1h 37m
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A love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live!

Overview

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

  1. Robert Stevenson

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Orson Welles

    Edward Rochester

  2. Joan Fontaine

    Jane Eyre

  3. Margaret O'Brien

    Adele Varens

  4. Peggy Ann Garner

    Jane Eyre (younger)

  5. John Sutton

    Dr. Rivers

  6. Sara Allgood

    Bessie

  7. Henry Daniell

    Henry Brocklehurst

  8. Agnes Moorehead

    Mrs. Reed

  9. Aubrey Mather

    Colonel Dent

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-26
Undoubtedly my favourite Brontë story, and amongst the best adaptations of period drama you could ever wish to see. Joan Fontaine is superb in the title role, a girl forced into a brutal orphanage following the death of her father. After many years of abuse at the hands of the monstrous "Brocklehurst" (Henry Daniell) she finds a post as a governess to the daughter of the reclusive Edward Rochester (Orson Welles) at his remote, gothic Thornfield Hall. After an initially rocky start with her employer, things begin to thaw between them but is any of it as it seems...? Robert Stevenson has create...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,705,000.00

Revenue
$3,550,000.00

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