Odeon Entertainment has just released a new DVD edition of Jane Eyre 1944 for Region 2:Jane EyreAnd Artiflix (US) offers Jane Eyre 1934 on a DVD-R edition on demand:
Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Agnes Moorehead & Elizabeth Taylor
Directed By: Robert Stevenson
Date of Release: 1943
Studio: Odeon Entertainment Ltd
DVD Release Date: 14 Mar 2011
An all-star cast - including Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Agnes Moorehead and Elizabeth Taylor - breathes magnificent life into this captivating 1944 film version of Charlotte Brontë's gothic romance novel. Adapted for the screen by Aldous Huxley, Robert Stevenson and John Houseman, and directed by Stevenson, this stirring film is the definitive version of the engrossing classic! After spending her childhood in an orphanage, young Jane Eyre (Fontaine) becomes governess to the ward of an imposing older man named Edward Rochester (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.
Features: Digitally Restored and Remastered, Interactive Menus and English Subtitles.
Jane Eyre (1934)Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV
Format: NTSC
Region: All Regions
DVD Release Date: January 3, 2011
Run Time: 62 minutes
What a gorgeous cover. No matter what version I see, this one is my absolute favorite.
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