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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218411891
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Running Time: 62 minutes
Sales Rank: 54091
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 15, 1934
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Interesting as Historical Curio
This 1934 version is produced by Monogram Pictures, one of the studios in so-called `Poverty Row,' slang used in Hollywood to refer to the smaller film companies specializing in low-budget action adventure films. Some of these studies made a low-budget version of classic literature and such titles as `Oliver Twist' or `The Moonstone' were produced by Monogram (both available on Alpha Video DVD). These films run only about 60 minutes and you just cannot find the same artistic value as MGM's `David ... Read More
Rating:  - A Film Time Capsule thankfully preserved on DVD.
This version of JANE EYRE is enjoyable for film history buffs. So, thank goodness it has not been lost, and is available on DVD.
This is a very early talkie, from one of the smaller movie companies, and all the growing pains show. (Garbo's ANNA CHRISTIE was made the year before this, and while still stagey, it shows what a larger, more successful film company could do, compared to this smaller one. Garbo's film was a film, this feels more like a record of a stage performance.) The ... Read More
Rating: - Decent Movie. And By The Way The Director Christy Cabanne Was A Man Not A Woman!
I have seen several movie version of the classic novel Jane Eyre and this is my least favorite and is the least faithful to the book but despite the flaws like Jane being played by a tall beautiful blonde when Jane is susposed to be plain in looks and Adele being a klutzy moron who kept doing stupid things I actually liked this movie. No it's definitely not as good as the Timothy Dalton version but it's okay. And by the way, I read the review by the female reviewer saying that Charlotte Bronte would ... Read More
Rating: - Jane Eyre (Monogram, 1934) with Virginia Bruce&Colin Clive
Monogram was a B-picture studio, however, they did occaisonally venture into the classics; in 1934 they produced two quite respectable adaptations based on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Jane Eyre was adapted by Adele Comandini, a screenwriter of note, and stars Virginia Bruce as Jane. Monogram surrounded Miss Bruce with a wonderful English cast: Colin Clive as Mr. Rochester, and plucked from the British colony, Ethel Griffies, Beryl Mercer, Jameson Thomas, John Rogers, ... Read More
Rating: - A period piece of a period piece
This is certainly one of the strangest adaptions of Charlotte Bronte's classic. It was probably made as a second feature, since it is only an hour long, and reflects what would appeal to a 1930's audience. The part of Adele, Rochester's ward, is greatly enhanced, while other important characters, (Helen, Jane's classmate at Lowood School and the Rivers family, are left out entirely). Colin Clive, (Henry Frankenstein of the movie, "Frankenstein") is miscast as a romantic and very, very nice Mr. Rochester. ... Read More
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