USA, 1946
103m, 2797 metres
35mm, black and white, 1.37:1
mono, English
An American Gothic melodrama with some horror elements written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Plot Summary
Miranda Wells is invited by her distant relative Nicholas Van Ryn to share his mansion as a paid companion to his young daughter. But the Van Ryns are a strange family, distant from one another and troubled by threatened revolt by their tenant farmers. Could there be anything to the servants fearful talk of curses and ghostly apparitions?
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Copyright MCMXLVI [1946] by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Darryl F. Zanuck presents. Released through Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Written for the Screen by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[Based on the novel] By: Anya Seton
Director of Photography: Arthur Miller
Film Editor: Dorothy Spencer
Music: Alfred Newman
Orchestral Arrangements: Edward B. Powell
Sound: W.D. Flick, Roger Heman
Western Electric Mirrorphonic Recording
Costumes: Rene Hubert
Makeup Artist: Ben Nye
Special Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Russell Spencer
Set Decorations: Thomas Little
Associate [Set Decorator]: Paul S. Fox
Dances Staged by: Arthur Appel
Cast
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)
Henry Morgan (Klaus Bleecker)
Vivienne Osborne (Johanna Van Ryn)
Jessica Tandy (Peggy O’Malley)
Trudy Marshall (Elizabeth Van Borden)
Alternative Titles
Il castello di Dragonwyck – Italy
O Castelo de Dragonwyck – Portugal
El castillo de Dragonwyck – Spain
Le Château du dragon – France
Fåfäng var min dröm – Sweden
Die Gebändigte Frau – Austria
Turha oli unelmani – Finland
Weißer Oleander – West Germany
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein 1967 Annual p.40
Books
- Feature Films, 1940-1949: A United States Filmography by Alan G. Fetrow p.126
- The Films of Vincent Price by Iain F. McAsh pp.9; 38
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.146
- Merchant of Menace: The Life and Films of Vincent Price by Denis Meikle pp.29-34; 351-352
- Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbé and Kristopher Woofter (eds.) pp.222n5, 248
- Vincent Price: The Art of Fear by Denis Meikle pp.22-25; 218-219
- Vincent Price Unmasked by James Robert Parish and Steven Whitney pp.64-65; 170-171
- Women in the Horror Films of Vincent Price by Jonathan Malcolm Lampley pp.17-21; 191
