Vincent Price always looked back on his role in this film with great fondness, for it took him out of supporting actor roles (although the blacklist put him back there temporarily) and made him a film leading man. He plays a sort of Rochester figure, a brooding rich man with a mysterious wife panted after by young thing, here played by Gene Tierney. It’s got a slightly unusual setting – Hudson Valley in the 19th century, where lots of landholders were remnants from the Dutch era. Price is a big landlord with feisty tenants – I had no idea such things existed in the US, so there you go. It adds a bit of class war to the Jane Eyre romance. There’s a boring doctor ready to take Tierney into his loving, dull arms.
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