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1950
Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Synopsis
Lost... lost in a love she was helpless to resist!
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.
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Cast
Jennifer Jones David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole
DirectorsDirectors
Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell
ProducersProducers
Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell David O. Selznick
WriterWriter
Michael Powell
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Mary Webb
EditorEditor
Reginald Mills
CinematographyCinematography
Christopher Challis
Art DirectionArt Direction
Arthur Lawson
ComposerComposer
Brian Easdale
Costume DesignCostume Design
Julia Squire Ivy Baker
Studios
London Films Productions The Archers Vanguard Films
Country
UK
Language
English
Alternative Titles
The Wild Heart, 여호, 귀향, La Renarde, La volpe, Die schwarze Füchsin, Coração Indômito, 谪仙记, Corazón salvaje, Lumottu veri
Genres
Romance Drama
Themes
Humanity and the world around us Heartbreaking and moving family drama Passion and romance Show All…
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Theatrical
06 Nov 1950
- UK
28 May 1952
- USANR
08 Dec 1955
- South Korea
Physical
30 Dec 2003
- South Korea12
Releases by Country
- Date
- Country
South Korea
08 Dec 1955
- Theatrical
30 Dec 2003
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UK
06 Nov 1950
- Theatrical
USA
28 May 1952
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Review by sophie b ★★★★ 3
I found a fox
Caught by dogs
He let me take him in my handsHis little heart
It beats so fast
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Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★ 1
Oh, what I wouldn't give for a restoration of this like the ones that other Archers films have received for Criterion. From that opening shot of a tree(?) gnarled to resemble a giant wolf encasing the white outline of a human being, GONE TO EARTH establishes itself as melodramatic fairy tale, one bound by a romance not dissimilar from the one in THE RED SHOES but filtered through a superstitious, earthen lens that gives the film a shockingly pagan bent. It's become a cliché of directors with just enough imagination to be unimaginative to shove cameras all over the place for "interesting" angle and perspective shots, but when the love triangle at the heart of the film finally comes to a head, the sudden leap into a fireplace to regard the meeting of two jealous men through rippling flames is as charged as cinema gets.
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Review by rischka ★★★★
wherein wild child jennifer jones discovers society is nothing but a spring trap for her and her animal friends. a troubled production from the start, this curiously underseen film set in the welsh borderlands contains some of powell & pressburger's most astonishing cinematography. our heroine hazel is a naive, superstitious, barefoot country girl, who feels more in common with animals than people. trouble brews when she attracts the affections of two very different gentlemen: a chaste pastor who wants to protect her and a cruel and reckless country squire who wants to exploit her. if this sounds like overheated nonsense, that's just what director powell thought when alexander korda insisted he adapt the 1917 book, figuring it had better commercial prospects…
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Review by matt lynch ★★★½
This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top.
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Review by Timcop ★★★★
A two-hour Kate Bush music video/Greek tragedy with some of the most gorgeous English countryside you e'er laid thine eyes upon. The bloodthirsty scoundrel of an aristocrat even looks like a sleazy Timothy Dalton, upping the Englishness factor to a million*.
*£ sterling
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Review by Diogo Serafim ★★★½
A coffin and a fox, a girl communing with nature while society communes with her beauty. Powell and Pressbuger take a seemingly simple story of a naive girl in a whirlwind of jealousy and patriarchal manipulation and turn it into a real meditation between nature and culture, finding some of the most beautiful images of english countryside ever recorded in the way. Wild at heart, gone to earth.
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Review by mimbale ★★★★★ 1
On my way to see this, I thought (a very unoriginal thought about cinema): Jennifer Jones will be the same age in this film as she was when I first saw it, but I am now many years older. What will it be like to revisit this ultimate depiction of femininity in a man’s world now that I’m in a different part of my life? Readers, that ending still knocks me out and says it all.
What was remarkable, though, was it was the same print, Scorsese’s own, that I showed to people in a tiny Tribeca theater (iykyk) in 2011, and that print has aged as much as I have. It was still glorious but showing life and wear…
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Review by phoebe 💫 ★★★★
Both his characters in Black Narcissus and Gone to Earth are imbued with such a blunt eroticism that it really makes me wonder if it comes from David Farrar himself or the parts written for him by Powell and Pressburger. In the first half of this — consisting mostly of him obsessively searching the Shropshire countryside for Jennifer Jones, hunting foxes as he goes — the horn motif that announces his character makes for some of the most thrilling and erotically-charged viewing of the 50s, and watching Jennifer Jones’s eyes light up whenever she hears a horse’s hoofbeats — “I can’t leave him alone, he won’t let me” — makes you wonder, like with every movie made by them, how…
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Review by Brian Saur ★★★★ 1
Underseen Powell & Pressburger gem. Watched via a lovely Academy Museum screening. Martin Scorsese’s 35mm print!
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Review by ben empey ★★★½ 4
so this is kate bush's favorite movie right lol obviously
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Review by Mario Melendez ★★★½
Sometimes to me it's pleasant to watch an entertaining & colorful drama with a very romantic novel kind alike. Gone to Earth exposes themes who are typically about our own beliefs and values as people, the love that is reciprocated/unrequited but also about fear and rooting our own feelings leading us to sacrifice happiness for stability. I'm not a big fan of Jennifer Jones as an actress, her character its clumsy at times but not so hard to understand, a girl who tries live by her own thought but inside cannot deny what she feels.
I find this one very in crescendo film because at the beginning it feels a little loose but as it progresses the story begins to take…
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Review by Carlos Valladares ★★★★★ 4
I was already in love with this unsettling, eerie myth of a film before that final ten minutes happen. The Dreyer-like silence, the ticking of a clock, the weirdly drugged slow movements of everyone (I now understand what Michael Powell was trying to go for with the Tales of Hoffmann—and thus why thus he flourished with a plot, whether by Leo Marks or Herr Pressburger), the war between desire, the proximity to animals, the crazy colors, the dusk shots of Jennifer Jones and a shawl, the tapping into a squirrelly mystical whatsit. Then the final ten minutes happen. Oh my fuck. Reader, I have rarely been gotten as good as I have with the final minute of this excruciatingly perfect…
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