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Jane Eyre, the novel, was always faintly absurd and decidedly lurid. But to a story bordering on trash, Charlotte Bronte brought storytelling bordering on genius. Told by uncoy, buffeted, orphanage-bred Jane herself-who comes as governess to Thornfield Hall, where the Byronic Mr. Rochester has a mad wife hidden away-Jane Eyre advances, in a rush of words, with a beat of real emotion...
...self-righteousness. Miss Bronte was indeed indignant, and once described her novel as an attempt "to pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee." In true Dickens' fashion, she wrote about insufferable aunts, cruel schoolmasters, and orphans' asylums, and made them all as black as the corridors of Thornfield. But she added to her novel a vivid sense of melodrama, replete with thunderstorms, dark castles, and voices drifting across the moor...
...contrast to Edward's revelation, Miss Bronte chose to unravel Jane's character step by step, following her growth from a mistreated Chile to governess of Thornfield. Jane Eyre's early years provide the film with its best opportunity to depict the author's social philosophy, and the scenes of the orphanage contain both excellent photography and acting. Joan Fountain plays the mature Jane Eyre with all the simplicity and firm sense of right and wrong that Miss Bronte intended...
Peering through grillwork gates, over garden walls and from doors, windows and moving dollies, three television cameras probed last week into the anguished doings at the great house at Thornfield in Studio One's dramatization of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Not all of Studio One's hour-long shows are as moving and well-integrated as was Jane Eyre; like all TV dramas the quality wavers up & down from week to week. But what makes Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) outstanding in television is its invariable high technical polish...