Jane Eyre (1944)
directed by Robert Stevenson
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
seen somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean

Didn't James Agee say something about Orson's jelly-dish peepers in "Jane Eyre" somewhere? What about that silly fake nose, or those sound-stage theatrics everywhere but where they're needed most (like the climax)? Adaptation or not, if the castle burns down in a mad gothic conflagration, we need to see it. Or couldn't the prosthetic take the heat? Only the nose (and ol' Goetz) knows.