

Jane Eyre
A love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live!
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 meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.7M
- Box office
- $3.6M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- love triangle
- riding accident
- yorkshire
- orphan
- moor (terrain)
- gothic
- discipline
- governess
- 19th century
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York3 Feb 1944
- TheatricalNR7 Apr 1944
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalLondon24 Dec 1943
IrelandIE
- Theatrical24 Dec 1943
SlovakiaSK
- TV12Markíza 4 May 1997
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1220 Jan 1948
XCXC
- Theatrical28 Mar 1947
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Jane Eyre was released on 24 December 1943.
Audience reviews
2- J10/10
John Chard
8/30/2019
Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended? Jane Eyre is directed by Robert Stevenson who co-adapts the screenplay with John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and Henry Koster. Based on the Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name, it stars Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine and Peggy Ann Garner. Music is scored by Bernard Herrmann and George Barnes is the cinematographer. After a harsh and eye opening childhood, orphan…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/26/2022
Undoubtedly my favourite Brontë story, and amongst the best adaptations of period drama you could ever wish to see. Joan Fontaine is superb in the title role, a girl forced into a brutal orphanage following the death of her father. After many years of abuse at the hands of the monstrous "Brocklehurst" (Henry Daniell) she finds a post as a governess to the daughter of the reclusive Edward Rochester (Orson Welles) at h…
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