Genuinely shocking! Especially if you haven’t read the book (so don’t - until you have seen the film).

JANE EYRE

Robert Stevenson

1943

Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, John Sutton

Screenplay by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and Robert Stevenson; adapted from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Title: JANE EYRE

Year: 1943

Director: Robert Stevenson

Cast: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, John Sutton

Writing: Screenplay by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and Robert Stevenson; adapted from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Genre tags: ROMANCE, DRAMA