Word: dragonwyck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Gene Tierney and Vincent Price, in Dragonwyck...
Variety's high box-office scores (for April): 1) Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox); 2) Ziegfeld Follies (M-G-M); 3) The Virginian (Paramount); 4) Saratoga Trunk (Warner); 5) Road to Utopia (Paramount...
...Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox), an American-Gothic period piece based on a best-seller by Novelist Anya Seton, won't teach anyone much about the patroon system or the anti-rent wars, but it ought to teach a lesson to every simple farm girl in Greenwich, Conn...
...lesson: watch out for the jaded aristocrats of New York. Back in the 1840s, according to the evidence of Dragonwyck, one innocent Greenwich girl named Miranda (Gene Tierney) knew no better. She was helping with the chores on her father's farm when fate gave her a chance to go to Dragonwyck, the Hudson Valley home of a distant relative. Miranda trembled with joy, begged to be allowed to accept. Her parents, dubious at first, finally relented...
...Miranda goes, with high hopes and a new Bible. Dragonwyck turns out to be a huge Gothic mansion near Albany. The relative turns out to be none other than haughty Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), whom any respectable Connecticut female should have spotted at once as not only a patroon but an untrustworthy, undemocratic rascal. Nicholas wears broadcloth and satin, dolefully plays a harpsichord and barks at his fat, stupid wife, treats his tenant-farmers like serfs...