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Jane Eyre [videorecording].

FilmPublisher number: KAL2140 | Shock EntertainmentPublication details: [Australia] : Shock Entertainment [distributor], [c2011]Description: 1 videodisc (DVD) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title: Period drama classics. Jane EyreSubject(s): Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Film and video adaptations | Man-woman relationships -- England -- Drama | Governesses -- England -- Drama | Eyre, Jane (Fictitious character) -- Drama | Feature films | Film adaptationsDDC classification: 791.4372.J353 2/2011 Production credits: Producer, William Goetz, director, Robert Stevenson; screenplay by Aldous Huxley, Robert Stevenson and John Houseman.Cast: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Margaret O'Brien.Summary: After spending her childhood in an orphanage young Eyre (Joan Fontaine) becomes governess to the ward of an imposing older man named Edward Rochester (Orson Welles). Ultimately Jane's gentle influence forces Rochester to drop his forbidding veneer and he proposes to her. But the discovery that Rochester is already married and further that his volatile wife is locked in the attic prompts Jane to leave as a series of tragic events unfold in this riveting classic that also features Margaret O'Brien.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
wnor - DVD	Northam Northam General Stacks	F JAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	In transit from Northam to Wundowie since 03/05/2024		AL4200023494XB

Originally released in 1944.

Special features: Audio commentary by Orson Welles biographer Joseph McBride and actress Margaret O'Brien ; Audio commentary with film historians Nick Redman, Steven Smith and Julie Kirgo ; Locked in the tower: the men behind Jane Eyre featurette.

Producer, William Goetz, director, Robert Stevenson; screenplay by Aldous Huxley, Robert Stevenson and John Houseman.

Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Margaret O'Brien.

After spending her childhood in an orphanage young Eyre (Joan Fontaine) becomes governess to the ward of an imposing older man named Edward Rochester (Orson Welles). Ultimately Jane's gentle influence forces Rochester to drop his forbidding veneer and he proposes to her. But the discovery that Rochester is already married and further that his volatile wife is locked in the attic prompts Jane to leave as a series of tragic events unfold in this riveting classic that also features Margaret O'Brien.