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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $9.99 Features • Black & White • Full Screen In Theaters : 07 April, 1944 DVD Release : 24 April, 2007 |
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Jane Eyre description Made two years after Citizen Kane, this 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre sure looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, costar Joan Fontaine--who plays the title character--has maintained that Welles methodically did just that every day on the set.) Not that the film's official director was a hack: Robert Stevenson, who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits for the studio, such as Mary Poppins, gets the credit. But there's no mistaking Welles's masterful hand in the film's bold and creative look, and there's no getting away from his enigmatic charisma as Rochester, the widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. An engrossing, gorgeous film, there's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | "My name is Jane Eyre... I was born in 1820, a harsh time of change in England" |
| One of those rare films that lays bear the 'cautious and delicate' balance between human suffering and fate. While the premise here is at times calamitous and overwhelming, the talents of Fontaine and Welles restore our faith in humanity in such a way as not to alter the course of destiny. A film rarely equaled in such dark elegant form. | |
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