Dragonwyck
Secret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror!
DramaRomanceThrillerbased on novel or bookpoisonblack and whitegothicnew york statemental illnessfarmerconnecticuitclass distinctionparanoid19th centuryland dispute
A gothic psychological thriller set in 19th-century New York where a farm girl's romantic entanglement with an aristocratic patroon descends into paranoia, poison, and class-driven terror.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
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)
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