Donate & keep LugaTv alive
In 1844, the Wells family lives in a small farm of their own in Greenwich, Connecticut and the sons and daughters have a rigid discipline and religious education from the patriarch Ephraim Wells. When his wife Abigail Wells receives a letter from her wealthy distant cousin Nicholas "Nick" Van Ryn inviting one of her daughters to live with his wife Johanna Van Ryn and him nursing their daughter Katrine Van Ryn, the naive Miranda Wells gets excited with the perspective of traveling. Her mother convinces Ephraim to let her go and Miranda travels with her father to New York. They meet Nick and they learn that he is a patroon of farmers at the Hudson Valley. Then Miranda travels to the Dragonwyck mansion where she is introduced to the voracious Johanna and the sweet Katrine and to the housekeeper Magda. Miranda also meets Dr. Jeff Turner, who is a sort of leader of the farmers that work for Nicholas, in a party and befriends him. Soon she notes that Katrine is neglected by her parents. When Johanna gets mysteriously ill and dies, Miranda returns home. But the atheistic Nick visits her family to propose to marry her. Now Mirandas dream comes true and she gets married with him and moves to Dragonwyck. Will they live happily ever after?
1844. Upon Abigail Wells receiving such a request from her previously unknown of wealthy distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryn, her husband Ephraim Wells, a devout but poor Connecticut farmer who owns his own land, reluctantly allows one of their daughters, Miranda Wells, the one with the wanderlust, to accept the position of companion to Nicholas and his wife Johannas eight year old daughter, Katrine, at Dragonwyck, the Van Ryn manor in the Hudson Valley. That reluctance is in part due to the differences in Ephraim and Nicholas, a patroon who does not believe in God. Furthermore, Nicholas tenant farmers are beholden to him and are not allowed to work toward purchasing the land from Nicholas on which they farm. Upon her arrival at the Van Ryn manor, Miranda catches the eye of young physician Dr. Jeff Turner. This does not sit well with Nicholas not only in Jeff being a vocal supporter of tenant farmer rights, but that he too has eyes for Miranda - whose eyes are returned in Nicholas direction - as the openly odd interactions between Nicholas, Johanna and even Katrine stem from an absence of love. What happens in the manor is affected in part by Nicholas goal as a father, not achieving that goal which may result in adverse consequences, the changing times of land ownership, and long held secrets of the manor.
Gene Tierney
Miranda Wells
Walter Huston
Ephraim Wells
Vincent Price
Nicholas Van Ryn
Glenn Langan
Dr. Jeff Turner
Anne Revere
Abigail Wells
Spring Byington
Magda
Connie Marshall
Katrine Van Ryn
Harry Morgan
Klaas Bleecker
Vivienne Osborne
Johanna Van Ryn
Jessica Tandy
Peggy O'Malley
Trudy Marshall
Elizabeth Van Borden
Gertrude Astor
Nurse
Arthur Aylesworth
Farmer
Shelby Bacon
Boy Dancer
Robert Baldwin
Farmer
Walter Baldwin
Tom Wilson
Trevor Bardette
Farmer
Bill Carter
Man
Related Movies
Donate & keep LugaTv alive