Jane Eyre secures a job as governess to the child (Margaret O'Brien) of the troubled Edward Rochester, sire of Thornfield, a mysterious English manor. When she hears strange cries and noises from a ...

For an English-language film directed by a Frenchman and based on a Russian novel, Julien Duvivier’s 1948 adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is a pleasing filmed book as compared to the dull ...

There’s been no shortage of film versions of “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte’s classic tale of romance and woe. Most notably, Orson Welles co-starred opposite Joan Fontaine back in 1944; Franco ...

It's one of the most romantic tales ever written. Brooding and dark, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre has never been out of print since its publication in 1847. Hollywood loves a love story. Imdb.com ...

One note about “Jane Eyre” and Elizabeth Taylor: most of the 1944 version, with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine, has a baleful sweep to it. But my favorite section is its lyrical childhood sequence ...

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 meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, ...

The candlelight flickers exquisitely even as the passions are slow to ignite in this spare, shrewdly acted but not especially vital retelling of "Jane Eyre." From the 1944 Joan Fontaine-Orson Welles ...