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?
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Orson Welles
Edward Rochester
Joan Fontaine
Jane Eyre
Margaret O'Brien
Adele Varens
Peggy Ann Garner
Jane Eyre (younger)
John Sutton
Dr. Rivers
Sara Allgood
Bessie
Henry Daniell
Henry Brocklehurst
Agnes Moorehead
Mrs. Reed
Aubrey Mather
Colonel Dent
Edith Barrett
Mrs. Fairfax
Director
Robert Stevenson
Screenplay
John Houseman
Tagline
"A love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1,705,000
Revenue
$3,550,000
Production
20th Century Fox
John Chard
August 30, 2019
Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended? Jane Eyre is directed by Robert Stevenson who co-adapts the screenplay with John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and Henry Koster. Based on the Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name, it stars Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine and Peggy Ann Garner. Music is scored by Bernard Herrmann and George Barnes is the cinematographer. After a harsh and eye openi...
CinemaSerf
June 26, 2022
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...
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