Movie
Dragonwyck
Overview
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Details
- Release date
- 1946-04-10
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Gene Tierney as Miranda Wells
- Walter Huston as Ephraim Wells
- Vincent Price as Nicholas Van Ryn
- Glenn Langan as Dr. Jeff Turner
- Anne Revere as Abigail Wells
- Spring Byington as Magda
- Connie Marshall as Katrine Van Ryn
- Harry Morgan as Klaas Bleecker
- Vivienne Osborne as Johanna Van Ryn
- Jessica Tandy as Peggy O'Malley
- Trudy Marshall as Elizabeth Van Borden
- Gertrude Astor as Nurse (uncredited)
Crew
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Director
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Writer
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