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Jane Eyre DVD

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An all-star cast - including Orson Welles Joan Fontaine Agnes Moorehead and Elizabeth Taylor - breathes magnificent life into this captivating 1943 black and white film version of Charlotte Bront's gothic romance novel. Adapted for the screen by Aldous Huxley Robert Stevenson and John Houseman and directed by Stevenson this stirring film is the definitive version of the engrossing classic! After spending her childhood in an orphanage young Jane Eyre (Fontaine) becomes governess to the ward of an imposing older man named Edward Rochester (Welles). Ultimately Jane's... gentle influence forces Rochester to drop his forbidding veneer and he proposes to her. But the discovery that Rochester is already married and further that his volatile wife is locked in the attic prompts Jane to leave as a series of tragic events unfold in this riveting classic that also features Margaret O'Brien. [show more]

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Released
14 March 2011
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
Odeon Entertainment Ltd 
Classification
Runtime
93 minutes 
Features
Black & White, Full Screen, PAL 
Barcode
5060082516085 
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Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the screenplay for this 1944 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance JANE EYRE. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where she was placed by a supercilious relative for exhibiting the forbidden trait of 'wilfulness', Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) secures work as a governess. Her little charge, French-accented Adele (Margaret O'Brien), is pleasant enough. But Jane's employer, the brooding, tormented Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), terrifies the prim young governess. Under Jane's gentle influence, Rochester drops his forbidding veneer, going so far as to propose marriage to Jane. But they are forbidden connubial happiness when it is revealed that Rochester is still married to a gibbering lunatic whom he is forced to keep locked in his attic. Rochester reluctantly sends Jane away, but she returns, only to find that the insane wife has burned down the mansion and rendered Rochester sightless. In the tradition of Victorian romances, this purges Rochester of any previous sins, making him a worthy mate for the loving Jane.

Joan Fontaine plays Charlotte Bronte's eponymous heroine in this adaptation of the famous novel. Jane is an orphan girl who becomes a governess in a mysterious Yorkshire household. Orson Welles plays Mr Rochester, the brooding, enigmatic master of the manor with whom Jane falls in love. The film also features a young Elizabeth Taylor as the tragic Helen Burns.

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