The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 79% of the 414 1940s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
157 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert StevensonDirector
- John HousemanScreenplay
- Aldous HuxleyScreenplay
- Robert StevensonScreenplay
- Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Orson WellesEdward Rochester
- Joan FontaineJane Eyre
- Margaret O'BrienAdele Varens
- Peggy Ann GarnerJane Eyre (younger)
- John SuttonDr. Rivers
- Sara AllgoodBessie
- Henry DaniellHenry Brocklehurst
- Agnes MooreheadMrs. Reed
- Aubrey MatherColonel Dent
- Edith BarrettMrs. Fairfax
- Barbara EverestLady Ingram
- Hillary BrookeBlanche Ingram
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Themes
based on novel or booklove triangleriding accidentyorkshireorphanmoor (terrain)gothicdisciplinegoverness19th century