Jane Eyre with George C. Scott: DVD Cover

    Jane Eyre Director: Delbert Mann Cast: George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins

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    • DVD Release Date: 12/02/2003
    • Original Release: 1971
    • Rating: Not Rated

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    Interactive menus; Original graphics; Film information; Chapters - direct scene access (go straight to your favorite scenes); Biography; Facts & trivia; Special collector's photo gallery

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Lowood Institution [18:48]
    2. Thornwood [8:36]
    3. Mr. Rochester [14:46]
    4. House Fire [11:37]
    5. An Aristocratic Party [12:15]
    6. Estranged Wife [13:06]
    7. Departure [7:55]
    8. A New Life [20:44]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott), lord of an English manor house called Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret. Jane and the moody and the tyrannical Rochester fall in love and agree to marry. But at their wedding ceremony, Rochester is revealed to have been already married. Suddenly his dark past comes crashing in on both himself and the innocent Jane. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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    A Phenomenal Let-Downby Anonymous

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    June 17, 2007: My grandmother and I are both ardent lovers of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and we purchased this adaptation of the novel and watched it together, as my grandmother remembered seeing it and enjoying it some years earlier. However, upon watching it, both of us were most severely disappointed. To say nothing of the film quality itself, Brontë's story and characters are decimated in this adaptation. Many important plot points are left out or unreasonably altered, and Susannah Yorke's Jane Eyre is nothing like the Jane I know and love from the novel. Yorke's Jane seems cynical and jaded, less interested in her love for Rochester than in advancing a feminist agenda that far exaggerates the undertones in Brontë's book. And while George C. Scott obviously had a great deal of potential in the role of Rochester, this adaptation leaves him no room to fulfill it. Rather than the intense, passionate, and terse Rochester of the novel, Scott's rendering of the character fails even to be convincingly grouchy for much of the film. Jane and Rochester seem more or less indifferent to one another much of the time, and two of the story's most important scenes--the confrontation between Jane and Rochester before she leaves him and the moment when he, blind and crippled, asks her again to be his wife--are conspicuously lacking in emotion and intensity. Scott and Yorke have no chemistry whatsoever, and thus many of the events of the story--and indeed the very attraction of their characters--are not believable in the least. If seeing this film had any value for me, it was only to satisfy curiosity and for the sake of watching another adaptation of Jane Eyre, but I was highly disappointed with this rendering of the story and the characters. I can think of no phrase more apt to describe this adaptation than one borrowed from Charlotte Brontë herself: "Devoid of sentiment."

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    Needs A better DVD!by Anonymous

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    November 12, 2005: I love watching the Jane Eyre movie adapations. This movie stars Suzannah York as Jane and George C. Scott as Rochester and he is a superb actor but unfortunately this movie hasn't gotten good treatment on DVD. Not only does the picture quality seem to not be good but apparently it's not even the whole movie and has been edited from it's original version. Hopefully someone will put out a better DVD! By the way: George C. Scott's co-star was Suzannah York not Sarah Miles!

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