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Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre (1944)

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Reviews Counted:10

Fresh:7

Rotten:3

Average Rating:2.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A dark and stormy production of Charlottle Bronte's gothic novel, with Welles making arguably the best Rochester ever.

Starring: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor

Starring: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Hillary Brooke, Peggy Ann Garner, Henry Daniell, Sara Allgood, Agnes Moorehead, John Sutton

Director: Robert Stevenson

Director: Robert Stevenson
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Producer: William Goetz
Screenwriter: Aldous Huxley, Robert Stevenson

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Glenn Martin Erickson
Glenn Martin Erickson
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Have fun with this hot-blooded Victorian soap opera.

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04/30/07
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine

Jane Eyre has seen no fewer than eighteen screen adaptations, none of them better than this 1944 production with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles.

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