Claudio Carvalho In 1844, the Wells family lives in a small farm of their own in Greenwich, Connecticut and the sons and daughters have a rigid discipline and religious education from the patriarch Ephraim Wells (Walter Huston). When his wife Abigail Wells (Anne Revere) receives a letter from her wealthy distant cousin Nicholas "Nick" Van Ryn (Vincent Price) inviting one of her daughters to live with his wife Johanna Van Ryn (Vivienne Osborne) and him nursing their daughter Katrine Van Ryn (Connie Marshall), the naive Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) gets excited with the perspective of traveling. Her mother convinces Ephraim to let her go and Miranda travels with her father to New York. They meet Nick and they learn that he is a patroon of farmers at the Hudson Valley. Then Miranda travels to the Dragonwyck mansion where she is introduced to the voracious Johanna and the sweet Katrine and to the housekeeper Magda (Spring Byington). Miranda also meets Dr. Jeff Turner (Glenn Langan), who is a sort of leader of the farmers that work for Nicholas, in a party and befriends him. Soon she notes that Katrine is neglected by her parents. When Johanna gets mysteriously ill and dies, Miranda returns home. But the atheistic Nick visits her family to propose to marry her. Now Miranda's dream comes true and she gets married with him and moves to Dragonwyck. Will they live happily ever after?"Dragonwyck" is the debut of Joseph L. Mankiewicz as director. The screenplay also by Mankiewicz is based on a successful novel by Anya Seton with modification in the ending. The cinematography By Arthur C. Miller and the music score by Alfred Newman call the attention of the viewer since the very beginning. The Gothic romance with supernatural touches shows the confrontation between an atheistic arrogant man and his naive religious wife. The performance of Vincent Price is top-notch and the gorgeous Gene Tierney performs a naive character but with strong principles. Walter Huston, despite a secondary role, is also amazing. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Solar de Dragonwyck" ("The Manor of Dragonwyck")

donnetrav I've always enjoyed performances by Vincent Price, Gene Tierney and Walter Houston. The movie seemed to be moving along quite well, creating some mystery and lots of suspense. The daughter of the patroon (Vincent Price) seemed to have a few hidden issues, thinking her parents not loving her and in turn, she not able to love them. The new governess, upon her arrival starts to notice strange behavior for ALL the residents of Dragonwyck, consequently being warned by the servant of the house (Spring Byington). Upon the arrival of Jessica Tandy, the crippled lady-in-waiting for the new governess and bride of the patroon, we find out his distaste for deficiencies in humans. In this case a crippled female. This is immediately noticed by Gene Tierney. As she tries in-vain to deal with her husband, she becomes pregnant with his son. The son is born with heart problems, eventually dying soon after birth. The father, Vincent Price, Takes to himself for while. But, as I was enjoying this particular film, I couldn't help but notice the unexplained absence of the patroon's daughter Katrine (Connie Marshall) and that of the role played by Spring Byington. Why is there no seemingly good explanation for these absences? Still, all-in-all, it was entertaining.

utgard14 Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) goes to live with her wealthy cousin (Vincent Price) and his wife on their estate called Dragonwyck. As is pretty much the standard for people who live on estates in older films, these folks ain't right. The movie's strength lies in its great cast and Gothic ambiance. Vincent Price is good in a role very similar to others he would play in horror films later in his career. Gene Tierney is beautiful and plays her part well. Walter Huston, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, and Jessica Tandy offer solid support. Unfortunately, despite the cast and fine direction from Joseph L. Mankiewicz, it's a rather dull and predictable movie that fails to build any suspense or intrigue. Obviously fans of Price and Tierney will want to check it out for themselves. Gene is certainly gorgeous, so the movie has that going for it.

Dalbert Pringle Set in the year 1844, Dragonwyck, from my point of view, was nothing but a silly piece of overwrought, melodramatic fluff.Regardless of it having an expensively polished look to it, Dragonwyck (from 1946) was worthless trash that was obviously being backed by big, Hollywood bucks. Pairing the frigid beauty, Gene Tierney, with the effeminate, Vincent Price, as a pair of hot, on-screen lovers, was a gross miscalculation that clearly reduced Dragonwyck's romantic angle to the level of being downright laughable and ludicrous.These two marginally talented actors couldn't have been more mismatched and unconvincing as a couple of passion-starved sweethearts had they both deliberately gone out of their way to persuade me that they secretly loathed each other with the burning fire of vehemence.Dragonwyck's disappointingly trite and predictable, little story tells the tale of the common, pretty, god-fearing, farm girl, Miranda Wells from Greenwich, Connecticut, who, one day (right out of the blue) is suddenly invited to come to the luxuriously vast estate of her distant cousin, the rich, pompous and pretentious dandy, Nicholas Van Ryn, in order to be a companion to his somewhat strange and melancholy, 8 year-old daughter, Katrine, whom he and his sickly, ever-complaining wife, Johanna, have absolutely no time, nor any love, for.Once Miranda arrives at Van Ryn's vast and ominous mansion known as "Dragonwyck" (this name is never explained), in order to fulfill her duties, that's when this film (regardless of its visual sumptuousness) quickly loses large quantities of steam and fails to even come close to living up to its intended potential and its dramatic clout. Filmed in b&w, Dragonwyck's 100-minute running time seemed more to me like 100 hours.This film did not contain one, single, likable character. And Gene Tierney, though pretty, was clearly too old to be passed off as being a believable 18 year-old.