Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Sidney Gilliat (screen play), Joan Harrison (screen play) Daphne du Maurier (by) Stars: Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton Release Date: October 13, 1939 In Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers that she’s living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit. Jamaica Inn is another Daphne Du […]
Director: Jim O’Hanlon Writers: Jane Austen, Sandy Welch Stars: Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Jonny Lee Miller Release Date: January 24, 2010 Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit – matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, […]
You had me at Hitchcock. And if that wasn’t enough you can also throw in the great Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. These three mainstays of Golden Hollywood are all involved with the mysterious Rebecca. Rebecca is the story of an unnamed girl who marries the wealthy Maxim de Winter who was ruined after the […]
Orson Welles stars as Edward Rochester, the brooding employer of governess Jane Eyre in this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Gothic novel. An orphan with a tragic story herself, young Jane, played by Joan Fontaine slowly frees Edward from his self-imposed prison, but his troubled past stands in the way of their burgeoning love. First, I […]
Wuthering Heights is the love story of Cathy and Heathcliff who meet as young children and as they grow up fall in love, but due to circumstance are not meant to be. Cathy, who has grown materialistic over the years marries Edgar Linton who can provide her everything she may desire. I always was so […]