Jane Eyre is a 1970 TV-film directed by Delbert Mann

Delbert Mann

Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty...

 starring George C. Scott

George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...

 and Susannah York

Susannah York

Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...

. It is based on the 1847 novel Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York...

by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

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.

The film had its theatrical debut in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 in 1970. It was released on television in the United States

United States

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 in 1971. This movie was widely released in China in early 80s with big success and was one of the most popular foreign movies in China.

Plot

Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood. Upon maturing, she is positioned as governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. Fully aware of her low-rank and plain countenance; she makes the best of her situation. But Thornfield holds many secrets and despite mysterious occurrences that Jane cannot comprehend, she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfield and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and maturity to triumph.

Differences from novel

• Jane's time at Gateshead Hall is only referred to and the tale starts with Jane arriving at Lowood School.
• Mrs. Reed, Eliza, John, and Georgiana do not appear at all. Neither does Bessie.
• Julia Severn does not appear. Instead Mr Brocklehurst criticizes, and immediately himself cuts, Helen's curly hair.
• The death of Mrs Reed is cut, so Jane does not return to Gateshead Hall.
• Mr Rochester and his guests at Thornfield Hall do not play charades.
• Mr Rochester does not disguise himself as a Gypsy woman.
• When Jane leaves Thornfield Hall she is immediately found and taken in by the Rivers.
• Rosamond Oliver does not appear.
• Jane's kinship to Mary, Diana and St. John Rivers is not revealed.
• Jane does not inherit a fortune.

Cast

• George C. Scott
  George C. Scott
  George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...
  
   as Edward Rochester
• Susannah York
  Susannah York
  Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   as Jane Eyre
• Sara Gibson as Jane Eyre as a Child
• Ian Bannen
  Ian Bannen
  Ian Bannen was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.-Early life and career:Bannen was born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, the son of Clare and John James Bannen, a lawyer. Bannen served in the British Army after attending St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and Ratcliffe College,...
  
   as St. John Rivers
• Rachel Kempson
  Rachel Kempson
  Rachel, Lady Redgrave , known primarily by her birth name as Rachel Kempson, was an English actress. She married Sir Michael Redgrave, and was the matriarch of the famous acting dynasty.-Career:...
  
   as Mrs. Fairfax
• Nyree Dawn Porter as Blanche Ingram
• Jack Hawkins
  Jack Hawkins
  Colonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins CBE was an English actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Hawkins was born at Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green, Middlesex, the son of master builder Thomas George Hawkins and his wife, Phoebe née Goodman. The youngest of four children in a close-knit family,...
  
   as Mr. Brocklehurst
• Jean Marsh
  Jean Marsh
  Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh is an English actress, occasional screenwriter, and co-creator of the television series Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott....
  
   as Mrs. Rochester (Bertha Mason)

Awards

• 1972: Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
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   - Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition (John Williams).

Soundtrack

The score was composed by John Williams and recorded at Anvil Studios, Denham, outside London.