Anya Seton. Dramatizace románu.
Účinkují Vincent Price, Gine Tierney a další.
Natočeno 1946. Premiéra 7. 10. 1946 (The Lux Radio Theater, 53 min.).
Pozn.: Rozhlasová adaptace založená na filmovém scénáři.
Lit.: anonym: Dragonwyck (1946) | Time to bow down to Vincent Price’s Hudson Valley Bluebeard. In web The Sound of Vincent Price, 10. 4. 2017 (článek + nahrávka k poslechu). – Cit.: On a gloomy estate in New York’s Hudson Valley in 1844, feudal Dutchman Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), cruelly lords it over his tenants. Married to Johanna (Vivienne Osborne), whom he resents because she has been unable to bear him a son, he secretly kills her when he sees a prize in Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), the new governess of his daughter Katrine (Connie Mar). But when Miranda accepts Nicolas’ proposal of marriage, she is unaware she is about to enter her own domestic nightmare…
Vincent Price’s career as the Merchant of Menace really began to take off in 1946, in both this Rebecca meets Jane Eyre Gothic melodrama, and in Shock, in which he played a mad doctor. An engrossing early exhibition of Price’s unique brand of creeping insanity (and the first of his ‘dead wives’ horrors), this elegant chiller was one of the actor’s favourites amongst his own performances on the big screen. Gene Tierney is bewitching as endangered spouse Miranda, while Jessica Tandy plays a crippled Irish maid (‘Deformed bodies depress me!’ says Price’s Van Ryn); and Glenn Langan is the local nice guy who becomes Miranda’s knight in shining armour.
Along with Roger Corman’s House of Usher, Dragonwyck was a huge influence on Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, with Tom Hiddleston’s mysterious English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe being modelled on Price – whose his climactic speech as Van Ryn still sends shivers down the spine.
Directed by Oscar-winner Joseph Leo Mankiewicz and based on Anya Seton’s 1944 novel, Dragonwyck opened in US cinemas on 10 April 1946 and was later adapted for radio, featuring both Price and Tierney reprising their roles, which went out on 7 October 1946 on the Lux Radio Theater. You can listen to it in full here.
‘Vincent Price gives a picturesque performance as the regal and godless patroon, using his face and his carriage to demonstrate insolence, that’s all. Clean shaven and elegantly tailored, he still makes a formidable Bluebeard, and his moments of suave diabolism are about the best in the film. Gene Tierney is fairly ornamental in the role of the tortured child bride, but she plainly creates no more character than the meager script provides. Of the several lesser characters, Walter Huston is most credible as the forthright, God-fearing father of the cardboard heroine.’ Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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