Funny, weird scenes from two Jane Eyre adaptations: Jane Eyre 1952, with Katharine Bard and Kevin McCarthy and Jane Eyre 1957, with Joan Elan and Patrick Macnee.
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00:00And then, it happened. I heard it for the first time.
00:30Who's there? Who's there, I say?
00:42What are you doing here?
00:44I thought I heard someone cry out. My room is across the hall.
00:47How did you get here?
00:48The door was ajar.
00:49You shouldn't be here.
00:50I'm sorry.
00:51Miss Eyre! Miss Eyre! Miss Eyre, did something disturb you?
00:56I thought I heard a strange laugh.
00:58Too much noise, Grace. Remember directions.
01:05Come to your room, my dear. Get some rest. You must go back to bed.
01:09You've had a long, tiring journey. Good night.
01:24Who the deuce are you?
01:26You're hurt, sir, and want help. I can practice on you. Can't travel further in this condition.
01:30Thank you. I have no broken bones, only a sprain.
01:35You are not a servant at the hall, of course. You are...
01:38The governess, sir.
01:39The governess? Well, you may help me, if you'd be so kind.
01:42Yes, sir.
01:45Excuse me. Necessity compels me to make you useful.
01:51No maidenly scruples with the sight of blood, eh?
01:54I should be of little assistance to you in a swoon, sir. I'll help you into the house.
02:03Your master may not take kindly to the freedom with which you dispense his hospitality.
02:07My master is away, sir, but if he were here, he'd not have me leave you unaided.
02:11Oh, you take him to be a kindly man, then?
02:13I've never met him, sir. If you'll forgive my saying so, you'd do better to talk less and save your strength.
03:55Shall I take you to your room now?
04:02Look at that sickly fire.
04:05Well, I've done my best. John will build it, and then we'll have tea together when you're settled.
04:10But what was that? Outside, I thought it was the wind.
04:14But someone laughed.
04:17There!
04:18Oh, you mustn't mind that, dear. Your room is on the second floor.
04:22In another wing. Very quiet all the time.
04:25But who is it? It doesn't sound like that.
04:29Just Grace Poole, one of the servants.
04:31Grace Poole?
04:33Yes, she's very strange sometimes, but a good enough sort, really.
04:38There's something wrong about that laugh.
04:40Oh, you won't see much of her. Come along now, dear.
04:44Mrs. Fairfax!
04:46Follow me, won't you, Jane?
04:50Mr. Rochester! How good to see you, sir!
04:56Be still, pilot! Quiet, boy!
05:05Oh, dear!
05:07Oh, dear!
05:09Oh, dear!
05:11Oh, dear!
05:13Oh, dear!
05:15Oh, dear!
05:17Oh, dear!
05:25Jamaica!
05:33Jamaica!
05:37Brandy!
05:39Don't move! I'll get it for you.
05:43I understand you wish to see me, sir, but if it's a bad moment, I...
05:49Does it hurt very badly?
05:52Here.
05:54Please let me. You should take the boot off, you know.
05:58Anyway, keep your foot elevated.
06:00I become quite lofty when I know I'm right.
06:04Speak to me.
06:07I want to learn about you.
06:09Speak to you, sir? About what?
06:12Everything you like.
06:15Speak.
06:17Well?
06:19I wouldn't introduce a topic.
06:21Perhaps you'd like to know about my training, or my references.
06:25No.
06:28What are you doing?
06:30Taking the child's doll up to her.
06:36She was much too tired tonight to go to sleep easily.
06:39Perhaps you'd like to say good night to her.
06:48You examine me.
06:51Do you find me handsome?
06:52No, sir.
06:54You didn't give me time to plan a tactful answer.
06:57Then you would speak the truth.
07:00You're cast in a different mold, I can tell that right away.
07:04Sir?
07:10I'm not handsome, and you're not beautiful.
07:23I've had too much brandy.
07:25I must put Adele to bed now.
07:27Are you afraid of me?
07:30No.
07:32But I truly don't understand you.
07:34So much you have.
07:36So much you have.
07:37So very fortunate you are, and yet it's clear you're not happy.
07:41Why is there need for so much brandy?
07:44Don't look down on me, Jane Eyre.
07:48With your clear eyes and unpolluted conscience.
07:54I was as clean as yourself once.
07:57Are your thoughts so terrible now that you have to hide from them like this?
08:01Don't look down on me.
08:07I couldn't help but let in.
08:10Don't look down on me.
08:12I'll get a footman. He'll help you to your room.
08:15I don't need one.
08:17I don't need anyone.
08:20I reach inside myself for the things I need.
08:24I climb those stairs.
08:27I climb those stairs.
08:30I want to stand alone and curse the laws of heaven.
08:34What are you saying?
08:36I know what I've got a right to.
08:39I mean to take it.
08:42I'll take it if it's the blackest thing on earth.
08:45I'll take it.
08:46I don't understand you at all.
08:48Oh, quite.
08:49You know nothing of what goes on in my brain when I'm alone.
08:52You know nothing of love I hate. You know nothing of life's problems.
08:58And yet you can speak to me of right and wrong.
09:02I said nothing of these, sir.
09:04Must be your own thoughts.
09:06Huh?
09:08Mine?
09:10There's a terrible war in yourself between right and wrong
09:13that you thrust on everyone around you.
09:17You're always as logical and sure in your mind
09:21as lifeless in your heart.
09:23Please let me go.
09:24I can't die this coldness about you.
09:27You're not yourself, sir. Please let me pass.
09:30My drinking temper relies too. That isn't me.
09:33I have a heart that wants to open and to receive and to give.
09:38I'm sure you wouldn't have me hear this.
09:41Someday you'll know what I'm saying is true.
09:44And then your life will begin.
09:48That's for me.
09:50How many times must I return to this dungeon?
09:54Tired of the search for love.
09:59And too full of hate to find it.
10:02What do you hate?
10:04And why must you always leave?
10:18Who's there?
10:22Who's out there?
10:36Dear smoke.
10:39Supposing I told you I'd lost my fortune.
10:42That I was penniless.
10:44Well, I'd love.
10:46Because you'd be joking, wouldn't you?
10:52Wouldn't you?
10:59She looked so peaceful.
11:01I didn't know she had a knife.
11:04I took it from her.
11:06She used her nails and teeth.
11:09Be quiet, man.
11:11She said she'd drain my heart.
11:14Start the music again.
11:16It's only an accident, ladies and gentlemen.
11:18Carry on with the party. This man will be quite all right.
11:41Finish it for me, Jane.
11:44Marry me.
11:51Is this your plan?
11:53Keep quiet, Mason.
11:55Mr. Rochester can never marry you.
11:57All right, I'll do it.
11:59I'll do it.
12:01I'll do it.
12:03I'll do it.
12:05I'll do it.
12:07I'll do it.
12:09You'll be quiet, Mason.
12:10Mr. Rochester can never marry you or any other woman.
12:12Get out, quick!
12:13He has a wife.
12:14Get out!
12:16Locked up in a room upstairs where she's been living 15 years.