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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller /
Mystery /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Actors:
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Jessica Tandy,
Anne Revere,
Glenn Langan,
Connie Marshall,
Vivienne Osborne,
Gene Tierney,
Walter Huston,
Vincent Price,
Spring Byington,
Harry Morgan
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)116
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Plot Summary:
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In 1844, smallholder's daughter Miranda Wells is invited by Nicholas Van Ryn, distant kinswoman, to vigorous in his mansion as enchiridion to his daughter. Arriving in high hopes, Miranda finds the Van Ryns a equity strange. The parents barely be acquainted with daughter Katrine; Nicholas faces a revolt of his resident farmers; the servants undertone darkly of curses and visitations. And what does Nicholas really do up in his minaret room?
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Dragonwyck
For all the callow filmmakers hoping to be the next Hitchcock or Scorsese, it's surprising there aren't more people in the world hoping to emulate the good fortune of journo-fabricator-kingpin Joseph L Mankiewicz. A chain who won four Oscars in just two excepting years (and was nominated for a patronize six), Mankiewicz's list of important films features such true classics as All About Eve, The Ghost And Mrs Muir and Julius Caesar. 'Mank' also had the pre-eminence of directing 12 actors to Academy Award nominations, the far-from-off colour dozen including Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. And while he might take made the deadly Cleopatra, the items he closed out his career directing Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier in the sublime Sleuth...
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