Jane Eyre

Overview

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

Top cast

Charlton Heston

Edward Rochester

Viola Roache

Blanche Ingram

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Ethel Remey

Mrs. Fairfax (as Ethel Everett)

Joan Wetmore

Grace Poole

Adelaide Klein

Mrs. Bruhl (uncredited)

Mary Sinclair

Jane Eyre

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