SUBJECTS

Human-animal relationships -- Great Britain -- Drama, Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Great Britain -- Drama, Webb, Mary -- Film and video adaptations

Gone to Earth

(Wild at Heart)

Restored Print

featuring

Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Esmond Knight,

Few films showcase Technicolor’s splendor like this gorgeously engorged adaptation of a Victorian-era bodice-ripper involving a beautiful half-gypsy wildling and the men who lust for her. “The world’s a big spring trap, with us in it,” sighs Hazel (Jennifer Jones) as she spins between a kindly, smitten parson and a leering squire with a twitchy whip hand. “She wanted neither; her passion, no less intense, was for freedom.” Saturated with foreboding, pantheistic imagery, and a Technicolor palette as vivid as its roiling sexual psychoses, Gone to Earth “recalls that other fairy story of innocence and menace, Night of the Hunter” (Time Out).

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Michael Powell
Based On
  • the novel by Mary Webb

Cinematographer
  • Christopher Challis
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 111 mins
Source
  • Buena Vista/Swank Distribution
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Matters of life and death : the films of Michael Powell (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, James Quandt, 2002

A production of the Archers: the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (program note), Film Forum (New York), 1995

Gone to earth (program note), San Francisco International Film Festival, Clyde Jeavons, 1986

The wild heart (program note), Toronto Film Society, Jaan Salk, 1985

Gone to earth (program note), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, William K. Everson, 1980

Gone to earth (program note), London Film Festival, Clyde Jeavons

Gone to earth (program note)

Gone to earth (press kit), William K. Everson

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