“Secret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror!”
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Ernst Lubitsch
Darryl F. Zanuck
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Arthur C. Miller
Alfred Newman
Gene Tierney
Miranda Wells
Walter Huston
Ephraim Wells
Vincent Price
Nicholas Van Ryn
Glenn Langan
Dr. Jeff Turner
Anne Revere
Abigail Wells
Spring Byington
Magda
Connie Marshall
Katrine Van Ryn
Harry Morgan
Klaas Bleecker
Vivienne Osborne
Johanna Van Ryn
Jessica Tandy
Peggy O'Malley
Trudy Marshall
Elizabeth Van Borden
Gertrude Astor
Nurse (uncredited)
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John Chard
I believe in myself, and I am answerable to myself! I will not live according to printed mottoes like the directions on a medicine bottle! Dragonwyck is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also adapts the screenplay from the Anya Seton novel of the same name. It stars Vincent Price, Gene Tiern...
CinemaSerf
Vincent Price excels in this sinister romance that has shades of Hitchcock's "Rebecca" (1940) about it. Gene Tierney ("Miranda") is brought up in a devoutly religious family under the auspices of the zealous "Ephraim" (Walter Huston) when she is offered the chance of a lifetime by her distant cousin...
DRAGONWYCK - TRAILER - 1946
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