Miranda finds herself swept up in a world of aristocratic blood, snobbery, outmoded social and economic mores, madness and murder. There the long standing system of tribute and tenant farming has existed since Dutch landowners established the system over two hundred years before. He is, unsurprisingly, against the idea of Miranda going to visit her very, very distant cousin, Nicholas van Ryn (Vincent Price), a wealthy landowner or patroon, on the Hudson River. Miller, editor Dorothy Spencer and composer Alfred Newman, he created a film that is appealing in every way.ĭragonwyck tells the story of Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), a naïve, imaginative farm girl who has grown up in a puritanical household led by her father (Walter Huston), a man who believes in American individualism and Christian tradition. Dragonwyck was, in essence to the studio system, a woman’s picture, which were, and still are in some circles, looked down upon for supposedly only appealing to the fairer sex. Not only did Mankiewicz direct the film, he wrote the screenplay based on Anya Seton’s 1944 novel, and along with cinematographer Arthur C. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter for the (in)famous Citizen Kane. Mankiewicz didn’t want to direct Dragonwyck. For many years in Hollywood, he had lived in the shadow of his older brother, Herman J. A young Vincent Price gives a very different horror portrayal in Joseph L.
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