Dragonwyck (1946)
- Starring:
- Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, (more)
- Director(s):
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Synopsis of Dragonwyck
Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the best-selling novel by Anya Seton. Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price) is a wealthy feudal heir of Dutch ancestry living in New York's Hudson Valley in the 1840s. Nicholas has come to hate his wife because she has been unable to give him a son; their only child is a daughter he doesn't care for. Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), a distant relative of the Van Ryns, comes to live at their estate and work as an au pair girl; Nicholas becomes infatuated with her and eventually poisons his wife so they can marry. However, while Miranda gives birth to a son, the boy is sickly and does not live to adulthood. Nicholas begins to slip into insanity, moving to the attic of his mansion and drowning his sorrows in drugs. A distraught Miranda seeks the counsel of the local physician, Dr. Jeff Turner (Glenn Langan); Dr. Turner falls in love with Miranda, and he eventually discovers that Nicholas killed his first wife to be with her, and that Miranda might be next on the madman's list. Dragonwyck was the directorial debut of screenwriter and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Complete Cast of Dragonwyck
- Gene Tierney - Miranda Wells
- Walter Huston - Ephraim Wells
- Vincent Price - Nicholas Van Ryn
- Glenn Langan - Dr. Jeff Turner
- Keith Hitchcock - Mr. MacNabb
- Boyd Irwin - Tompkins
- Trudy Marshall - Elizabeth Van Borden
- Jane Nigh - Tabitha Wells
- Francis Pierlot - Dr. Brown
- Maya Van Horn - Countess De Grenier
- Arthur Ayleswofth - Farmer
- Trevor Bardette - Farmer
- Virginia Lindley - Helena
- Elizabeth Williams - Dowager
- Grady Sutton - Astor House clerk
- Mickey Roth - Nathaniel
- Al Winters
- Nestor Eristoff
- Steve Olsen - Vendor
- Tom Martin - Servant
- Robert Malcolm
- Clancy Cooper - Farmer
- George Ford
- Spring Byington - Magda
- Scott Elliott - Tom Wells
- Ruth Ford - Cornelia Van Borden
- Anne Revere - Abigail Wells
- Jessica Tandy - Peggy O'Malley
- Connie Marshall - Katrina Van Ryn
- Henry Morgan - Bleecker
- Vivienne Osborne - Johanna Van Ryn
- Reinhold Schünzel - Count De Grenier
- Gertrude Astor - Nurse
- Shelby Bacon - Black Boy Dancers on Boat Deck
- Ruth Cherrington
- Douglas Wood - Mayor
- Nanette Vallon - French Countess
- Larry Steers
- Addison Richards - Farmer
- Betty Fairfax - Mrs. MacNab
- Wally Dean
- Harry Humphrey
- Ted Jordan
- William Carter - Man
- Tom Fadden - Farmer
- Director(s):
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Writer(s):
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Producer(s):
- Darryl F. Zanuck
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