Secret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror!
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
- 6.7
- 1946
- Released
- 1h 43m
Gene Tierney
Miranda Wells
Walter Huston
Ephraim Wells
Vincent Price
Nicholas Van Ryn
Glenn Langan
Dr. Jeff Turner
Anne Revere
Abigail Wells
Spring Byington
Magda
Connie Marshall
Katrine Van Ryn
Harry Morgan
Klaas Bleecker
Vivienne Osborne
Johanna Van Ryn
Jessica Tandy
Peggy O'Malley
Trudy Marshall
Elizabeth Van Borden
Gertrude Astor
Nurse (uncredited)
Robert Baldwin
Farmer (uncredited)
Ruth Cherrington
Dowager (uncredited)
Scott Elliott
Tommy Wells (uncredited)
Pierce Lyden
Murdered Man (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Servant (uncredited)
Charles Waldron
Farmer (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
Farmer (uncredited)
Shelby Bacon
Dancer (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
Tom Wilson (uncredited)
Trevor Bardette
Farmer (uncredited)
Bill Carter
Man (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper
Farmer (uncredited)Edwin Davis
Dancer (uncredited)Wally Dean
Servant (uncredited)Nestor Eristoff
Man (uncredited)
Tom Fadden
Otto Gebhardt (uncredited)Betty Fairfax
Mrs. McNab (uncredited)George Ford
Man (uncredited)
Ruth Ford
Cornelia Van Borden (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
Party Guest (uncredited)
Robert "Buzz" Henry
Messenger Boy (uncredited)Keith Hitchcock
Mr. McNabb (uncredited)
Harry Humphrey
Farmer (uncredited)
Boyd Irwin
Tompkins the Butler (uncredited)
Ted Jordan
Man (uncredited)Virginia Lee
Helena Vanderhyde (uncredited)Robert Malcolm
Farmer (uncredited)Thomas Martin
Servant (uncredited)Walter Marx
Boy (uncredited)
Jane Nigh
Tabby Wells (uncredited)Steve Olsen
Vendor on Boat (uncredited)
Francis Pierlot
Dr. Brown (uncredited)
Addison Richards
Head Farmer (uncredited)Mickey Roth
Nathaniel Wells (uncredited)Alexander Sascha
Man (uncredited)
Reinhold Schünzel
Count De Grenier (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
Astor House Clerk (uncredited)Art Thompson
Servant (uncredited)David Vallard
Obadiah (uncredited)Nanette Vallon
French Countess (uncredited)Maya Van Horn
Countess De Grenier (uncredited)Elizabeth Williams
Dowager (uncredited)Al Winters
Servant (uncredited)
Douglas Wood
Mayor Curtis (uncredited)
Released
en
$3,000,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #poison
- #black and white
- #gothic
- #new york state
- #mental illness
- #farmer
- #connecticuit
- #class distinction
- #paranoid
- #19th century
- #land dispute
- #land rights
- #patroon
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Vincent Price excels in this sinister romance that has shades of Hitchcock's "Rebecca" (1940) about it. Gene Tierney ("Miranda") is brought up in a devoutly religious family under the auspices of the zealous "Ephraim" (Walter Huston) when she is offered the chance of a lifetime by her distant cousin "Nicholas van Ryn" (Price) to go and live in his mansion "Dragonwyck" to help care for his wife. Wh
I believe in myself, and I am answerable to myself! I will not live according to printed mottoes like the directions on a medicine bottle! Dragonwyck is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also adapts the screenplay from the Anya Seton novel of the same name. It stars Vincent Price, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Glenn Langan, Anne Revere, Jessica Tandy and Spring Byington. Music is by Alfred