Dragonwyck (1946)

Réalisateur:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (writer)
Anya Seton (novel)

Release Date:

10 avril 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Drame | Thriller | Mystery | Romance

Accroche:

Secret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror!

Plot:

In 1844, a young woman goes to live in a dark, ominous mansion.

Plot Keywords:

Narcissism | Gothic | Boat | Child | Dance

Avis des utilisateurs:

moody film

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	...	Klaus Bleecker (as Henry Morgan)
Vivienne Osborne	...	Johanna Van Ryn
Jessica Tandy	...	Peggy O'Malley
Trudy Marshall	...	Elizabeth Van Borden
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Gertrude Astor	...	Nurse (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth	...	Farmer (uncredited)
Shelby Bacon	...	Boy Dancer (uncredited)
Robert Baldwin	...	Farmer (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin	...	Tom Wilson (farmer) (uncredited)
Trevor Bardette	...	Farmer (uncredited)
Bill Carter	...	Man (uncredited)
Ruth Cherrington	...	Dowager (uncredited)
John Chollot	...	French Count (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper	...	Farmer (uncredited)
Jamie Dana	...	Seth Wells (uncredited)
Edwin Davis	...	Boy Dancer (uncredited)
Wally Dean	...	Servant (uncredited)
Scott Elliott	...	Tom Wells (uncredited)
Nestor Eristoff	...	Man (uncredited)
Tom Fadden	...	Otto Gebhardt, Farmer (uncredited)
Betty Fairfax	...	Mrs. McNab (uncredited)
George Ford	...	Man (uncredited)
Ruth Ford	...	Cornelia Van Borden (uncredited)
Michael Garrison	...	Zack Wilson (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)
Tom Martin	...	Servant (uncredited)
Walter Marx	...	Boy (uncredited)
Jane Nigh	...	Tabitha 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)
Larry Steers	...	Servant (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)
Charles Waldron	...	Farmer (uncredited)
Elizabeth Williams	...	Dowager (uncredited)
Al Winters	...	Servant (uncredited)
Douglas Wood	...	Mayor Curtis (uncredited)

Réalisé par
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz		writer
Anya Seton		novel

Produit par
Ernst Lubitsch	....	producer (uncredited)
Darryl F. Zanuck	....	producer (uncredited)

Musique originale
Alfred Newman

Image
Arthur C. Miller		(as Arthur Miller)

Montage
Dorothy Spencer

Direction artistique
J. Russell Spencer		(as Russell Spencer)
Lyle R. Wheeler		(as Lyle Wheeler)

Décorateur de plateau
Thomas Little

Création des costumes
René Hubert		(as Rene Hubert)

Maquillage
Ben Nye	....	makeup artist

Assistant réalisateur
F.E. 'Johnny' Johnston	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Paul S. Fox	....	associate set decorator
Larry Haddock	....	props (uncredited)

Technicien du son
W.D. Flick	....	sound
Roger Heman Sr.	....	sound (as Roger Heman)

Effets spéciaux
Fred Sersen	....	special photographic effects
Sol Halperin	....	transparency projection shots (uncredited)
Ralph Hammeras	....	miniatures (uncredited)
J.O. Taylor	....	transparency projection shots (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Paul Lockwood	....	second camera operator (uncredited)

Music Department
Edward B. Powell	....	orchestrator
Charles Althouse	....	music mixer (uncredited)
Paul Neal	....	music mixer (uncredited)
Murray Spivack	....	music mixer (uncredited)

Divers
Arthur Appel	....	dance director
Darryl F. Zanuck	....	presenter
Katherine Lambert	....	research assistant (uncredited)
Arthur Pierson	....	dialogue director (uncredited)
Frances C. Richardson	....	research director (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1946) (USA) (theatrical)
• Media Cooperation One (MC-One) (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Château du dragon, Le (France) [fr]

Durée:

103 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Anecdotes:

Ernst Lubitsch was intended to direct the film. When he suffered from illness, Joseph L. Mankiewicz took over.

Guillemet:

Miranda Wells: The breeze feels wonderful against my face.
Nicholas Van Ryn: The breeze must feel wonderful indeed with a face as beautiful as yours against it.

Connexions De Film:

Featured in Mankiewicz Dragonwick: naissance d'un auteur (2004) (V)

Soundtrack:

CREOLE LULLABY

moody film

Anya Seton is one of the great historical fiction writers, up there with Thomas Costain. Like my favorite novel of hers, Green Darkness, Dragonwyck is a moody, atmospheric piece set in another time, and the film version (with nice help from the musical score) is quite good.

Gene Tierney plays a radiant beauty who comes to live at Dragonwyck as a companion to Van Ryn's daughter. She soon falls under the spell of its strange master, played by Vincent Price. Young horror film fans often don't realize that before Vincent Price entered the horror realm, he was a leading man and supporting player in some very good films. With his icy voice and snobbish demeanor, Price is a perfect Van Ryn. As Miranda, Gene Tierney is gorgeous, and needless to say, attracts the interest of not only Price, but Dr. Turner, played by handsome Glenn Langan. Given the politics of Van Ryn, it is surprising to me that Miranda drifted toward him and not to Dr. Turner, with whom she seemed to have more in common, i.e., an empathy toward her fellow man. But she is swept up in the upper class lifestyle and her own childhood dreams. Always a mistake.

There are some disturbing holes in the story. What happens to the little girl and to her maid, for instance, at the end of the film? And what is Van Ryn, dressed in his bathrobe, doing in Miranda's room while she's in bed? Seems odd for those times, and given Miranda's background (the daughter of God-fearing, Bible-reading parents), it's totally out of character for her to have let him in.