This 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was made just two years after Citizen Kane, and it certainly looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, co-star 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 gets the credit, a man who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits such as Mary Poppins. But there's no mistaking Welles' masterful hand in this... 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, Amazon.com [show more]
Classic Hollywood Motion Picture Remembered.
Jane Eyre.
By: Roy Nancarrow.
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This superb version of Charlotte Brontë's novel:- "Jane Eyre" was made only a few years after:- "Citizen Kane". Orson Welles, although not the motion pictures official director, spent a lot of his time - on the set - behind the camera. The film's official director was in fact Robert Stevenson. But it is obvious that Orson Welles' played a masterful hand in this production's bold and creative look. His enigmatic charisma also shines through in his role of Rochester, the supposed widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. There's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning of this motion picture as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. Others in the all star cast include:- Joan Fontaine, Agnes Moorhead. All of them breathe life into this enchanting 1944 version of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance. A Classic motion picture from the studios of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation one no film fan should miss seeing.
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