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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: JANE EYRE review
Description: In which the Mister joins me in reviewing JANE EYRE (1943) from Charlotte Brontë's novel and a screenplay by Robert Stevenson and Aldous Huxley.  In director Robert Stevenson’s atmospheric 1943 Gothic masterpiece, the resilient orphan Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) escapes a childhood of abuse to become a governess at the gloomy and isolated Thornfield Hall. She soon finds herself drawn to the brooding, temperamental master of the estate, Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), whose cynical exterior masks a deep-seated pain that Jane’s quiet strength begins to heal. As their unlikely romance deepens toward a marriage proposal, Jane is haunted...