Jane Eyre

1943 97 min Drama, Romance

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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IMDb 7.5 RT 100

budget $1,705,000 earnings $3,550,000 return 2.1x

director Robert Stevenson

writers Aldous Huxley, John Houseman, Robert Stevenson

cast