When an imaginative girl has fantasies that her mother is having an affair, her visions almost ruin her parents domestic life. Based on the play “Alice Sit By The Fire” by James M. Barrie.

Darling, How Could You! (1951).mkv

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A woman hired to write the history of a wealthy family stays at the family’s estate in Oregon. She discovers that she strongly resembles a long-dead ancestor in the family, and finds things happening to her that happened to–and led to the death of–that woman.

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Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a husband, Jervis (Richard Ney), and is having an affair with Roger Gretorex (Patric Knowles), Ivy becomes obsessed with Miles Rushworth (Herbert Marshall), and is determined to have him….

Ivy.1947.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Who directed Jane Eyre? The credits clearly state Robert Stevenson, but a cult of sorts has sprung up over the decades since the film’s 1943 release to claim that it was really helmed—in spirit if not in letter-by its star Orson Welles. Stevenson’s wife and kids argue quite vociferously to the contrary, and certainly the public record, while tantalizingly ambiguous about what (if anything) Welles contributed, does not seem to support this thesis. But there is simply no denying that there is a huge Wellesian influence looming over the film like one of its intrinsically Gothic shadows. Stevens and cinematographer George Barnes often frame things in much the same way Welles and his cinematographer Gregg Toland did in Citizen Kane or how Welles and Stanley Cortez approached The Magnificent Ambersons. While the use of deep focus is somewhat limited, at least when compared to the “excesses” of the Welles films, there are striking angles and incredible chiaroscuro lighting in abundance throughout this Jane Eyre, certainly one of the most visually striking films in Stevenson’s long but frankly kind of pedestrian career (he went on to a long tenure at Walt Disney Productions, where he contributed fluff like The Absent Minded Professor, but also achieved a certain immortality with Mary Poppins).

Before Jane Eyre trekked through the Moors of Hollywood to the 20th Century Fox lot, it was actually going to be a David O. Selznick production. Selznick evidently put the original package together, which included stars Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine, but he only slowly came to realize how similar this property was to Rebecca. If Joan Fontaine’s Jane character wasn’t quite the milquetoast that Rebecca was, other mirroring elements loomed large: both films featured a lonely woman arriving at a Gothic mansion ruled over by a mysterious, brooding man with a skeleton in his closet (and/or attic), both films featured the presence of a former wife affecting a burgeoning romance between the two, and both films had a fire at the mansion as a central plot point (even if that element were only explicitly portrayed in the Daphne Du Maurier adaptation).

According to at least some reportage, it was these very similarities that led Selznick to shop the property around, which is when it migrated to Fox, with Welles and Fontaine still in tow. There are of course manifold differences between Jane Eyre and Rebecca, not necessarily relegated to their vastly different time frames. Jane Eyre spends much of its running time detailing the childhood travails of orphan Jane, played with a heartfelt gusto by Peggy Ann Garner. Jane’s harridan Aunt (Welles repertory player Agnes Moorehead) shuttles the girl off to the imposing Lowood Institution, run by a martinet named Reverend Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell in one of his most memorable portrayals). Brocklehurst is intent on “breaking” the little girls under his care, and he puts Jane and her new best friend Helen (Elizabeth Taylor, incredibly uncredited) through a series of harrowing punishments, one of which ends up contributing to Helen’s demise.

Somehow Jane makes it through the gauntlet and reaches adulthood, actually refusing an offer of employment by the “good” reverend in order to become a governess at an isolated estate called Thornfield. Traipsing through the foggy, shrouded Moors around Thornfield one night almost leads to tragedy when she is suddenly beset upon by a man on a horse, a collision which sends the horse and rider catapulting to the ground. Though she isn’t initially aware of the fact, this odd man turns out to be her employer Edward Rochester (Orson Welles). Rochester’s ward Adele (a charming Margaret O’Brien) is Jane’s charge, and despite the gloomy surroundings, Jane seems to have finally found a hospitable place to live.

A number of bizarre occurrences, including midnight screams and a dangerous brush with a house fire, ensue, but while Jane has her suspicions of what is going on (which turn out to be incorrect), she finds herself drawn inexorably to Rochester’s brooding, solitary persona. Her love would seem to be unrequited, as it looks likely Rochester is about to marry a socially well placed woman, but a series of unexpected developments first take her out of contention, then place Jane front and center, before a devastating denouement keeps happily ever after apparently well outside of reach.

Jane Eyre is one of the more literate of literary adaptations, courtesy of a well structured script by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and Robert Stevenson. The film plays almost like a Gothic noir at times, albeit with roles reversed. This is a film about an innocent woman perhaps led to her emotional ruin by an “homme fatale”. The noir aspect is of course fanciful from an actual plot standpoint, but visually this film is filled with the looming shadows, oddly askew angles and psychological manifestations that would come to define that genre over the next decade or more. Cinematographer George Barnes, who had won an Oscar for Hitchcock’s Rebecca, lights this film impeccably. The feeling of claustrophobic gloom hanging over Thornfield, Jane and Rochester is almost palpable. The film’s stunningly evocative production design also contributes mightily to the emotional resonance Jane Eyre achieves. Bernard Herrmann’s achingly romantic (and Romantic) score pulses through the film like the quickening heartbeats of Jane and Edward, with occasional nods to the madness threatening their nascent happiness.

Jane Eyre.1943.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN is set in Vienna at the turn of the century, an era Ophüls loved and had used in LA RONDE and LIEBELEI. Joan Fontaine gives a moving, heartfelt performance as Lisa Berndl, a romantic young woman who falls in love with the handsome concert pianist Stephan Brandt (Louis Jourdan).

After a brief affair, which she takes for love, not seeing that he is just a philanderer, he leaves for a concert in Italy and never returns to the now-pregnant Lisa. She bears the child herself and later enters into a stable marriage, although one lacking the passion and love she still feels for Stephan. Ten years later, when he returns to Vienna, Lisa attempts, at the risk of her marriage, to see if he loves, or even remembers her. Fontaine and Jourdan perfectly project the feelings of a woman in love and a man too selfish to notice or care.

Written by Howard Koch, the co-author of CASABLANCA, from a novel by Stephan Zweig, LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN is generally described as a “woman’s picture” because of its theme of unrequited love. But this somewhat pejorative description hides what in acting, writing, camera work, atmosphere and emotion is not just one of Max Ophüls’ crowning achievements, but one the finest examples of how all elements needed to make a great film are brought together. (Rotten Tomatoes)

Letter from an unknown woman - Max Ophuls (1948).mkv

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Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants to get married and leave the service. The other two trick him into a final mission where they end up confronting the entire cult by themselves as the British Army is entering a trap. This is of the “War is fun” school of movie making. It has the flavour of watching Notre Dame play an inferior high school team.

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Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.

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