Jane Eyre DVD
Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the screenplay for this 1944 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic romance JANE EYRE. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where she was placed by a supercilious relative for exhibiting the forbidden trait of ‘wilfulness’, Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) secures work as a governess. Her little charge, French-accented Adele (Margaret O’Brien), is pleasant enough. But Jane’s employer, the brooding, tormented Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), terrifies the prim young governess. Under Jane’s gentle influence, Rochester drops his forbidding veneer, going so far as to propose marriage to Jane. But they are forbidden connubial happiness when it is revealed that Rochester is still married to a gibbering lunatic whom he is forced to keep locked in his attic. Rochester reluctantly sends Jane away, but she returns, only to find that the insane wife has burned down the mansion and rendered Rochester sightless. In the tradition of Victorian romances, this purges Rochester of any previous sins, making him a worthy mate for the loving Jane.
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