GONE TO EARTH (1950) Jennifer Jones

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GONE TO EARTH (1950)

starring Jennifer Jones, David Farrar and Cyril Cusack; screenplay by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on a novel by Mary Webb; directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving gypsy girl is desired by a fox-hunting squire, even after she marries a clergyman.

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  1. Edited and re-titled "The Wild Heart" by producer David O. Selznick in 1952, Powell and Pressburger's beautiful film GONE TO EARTH is only rarely shown in the U.S. as it was intended to be seen.

  8. Postscript from Ann Garner: My paternal great grandmother came from Much Wenlock and I visited it many times ,as a child with my family. I now have 3 dogs; a cream German Shepherd called "Moonlight, a tiny German Spitz Klein called" Charm" and a small Shetland Sheepdog(Sheltie) who looks very similar to a vixen and is called,"Foxy"!!

  9. I remember seeing this film in 60's on television and it made a very strong impact on me. I was early teens. I could particularly relate to Hazel's love of animals. I have always thought foxes particularly beautiful animals,and been against abominable hunting with dogs. In adulthood I collected 1,257 signatures against fox hunting and presented the petition to my member of Parliament when the topic was debated in the House Of Commons and a law was passed against hunting foxes with dogs in 2004. Despite that law, it hasn't always been enforced and the atrocities continue in Britain. The remake of 1985, omits some important scenes from the original which were ingrained in my brain. Firstly, there was a scene when Hazel was living with the squire,when she rescues a rabbit from his hound and has it indoors. The squire mocks her sentimentality and gets the rabbit from her and throws it out the window to the waiting hound. Scenes like that I never forgot. In the remake the final few minutes of the film have been cut also. The hounds and huntsmen are surrounding her and the squire himself tells her to pass Foxy to him for her and the fox's safety. Hazel is frantic to save Foxy and doesn't know if she can trust the squire based on his previous cruelty to the rabbit. In her panic and confusion she steps back and falls in to the mineshaft with Foxy. I saw this film last night on You tube and now,at 68 years, my reaction was the same as when I was a girl. I cried bitterly,though I knew the ending. An excellent film with very emotive acting from Jennifer Jones

  14. What a strange film – she seemed so simple and odd. I was captivated however and this film has its own magic. stranger than life characters.

  16. What a horrible negative story-line! The whole time I had hope for something good but only disappointment.
    What could compel someone to write such a thing?

  17. Inolvidabke peli.Y eso q la vi en blanco y negro de chica.Ella…y el gran Ciril…q belleza verla en color…Powell era genial.??❤????????

  23. Wow, who would've known what the title of this movie really meant until of course at the end. What a surprise.

  24. Is fox hunting still legal in England. OMG I hope not. I make friends with wild birds. If we have souls, so does every day creature. Killing is evil. Animals I have loved and bonded with are, cats, dogs, caged and wild birds -the caged ones I let out and they went back to eat and sleep. A beautiful calf that grew into the most loveable bull. I am old now and sad. Feeding the wild birds keep me alive
    This was a wonderful film that should be shown everywhere. Jennifer Jones was a true beauty.

  25. I felt the end of this movie was so predictable , given that the deep hole or seemingly endless appears appear early in the movie , and given the films title .. hec .. the end was no surprise I was waiting for it and i had never seen this film of miss Jones's before . Great performance from Jennifer Jones but a very mediocre movie .

  26. True to form for Miss Jennifer Jones . She is indeed very attractive , dont know if would classify her as actually beautiful though . Just could not warm to her however. She destroyed her husband Robert Walker, after running off with David O Selznick. She got some sure winner hit movie scripts given to her after that . In the end she left Selznick as well . God knows how many affairs and marriages she had , but poor Robert walker her first husband drank himself to death , he just could not get over her , and wept continually wanting her back in spite of everything she had done This film reminds me somewhat of her personal character in real life . Very good actress but i always felt there was a dark quality about her , and it comes across on screen . Check out some of her other films .

  28. Nice enough picture quality and looks superb in Technicolor. Some great village/town shots, very colourful. Only fly in the ointment was the cad in the movie. Too much of a cad for my liking, was Dick Dastardly based on him?. Could see where all this was going up to 2/3rds of the movie, how it would ultimately end, so bailed out.

    Not too bad for 70 years old movie, good usage of the Technicolor process, worth watching for that on its own if not for the content of the film itself.

  29. The visual poetry of the movie, with Jennifer Jones's bewitchingly nuanced performance lovingly highlighted, is virtually unsurpassed in film history. It's a simple story, really: just a basic love triangle–but what a rustic-pastoral atmosphere conjured up by the quaint dialogue and, above all, by Hazel's richly imaginative, inner glow! The ending?…well, in a way, the story finally reveals itself to be a kind of tragic, timeless folk tale.

  32. What an amazing movie. Even tho she is an Academy Award winner, I feel as tho Jennifer Jones was under rated. I've recently been watching all her movies, and she's is fantastic in all of them. I love when a movie Inspires me to read the book ( which I've just ordered). And I tell you , when Hazel takes Redding in her arms and loves and strokes him in the same way she does Foxy, and she spoke of how he cries and he says "Hazel ,no dont" , I about died…..

  33. Had Farrar been wearing his Black Narcissus wardrobe, minister dude wouldn't have stood a chance & Jones would have died happy – David Farrar bare-chested in short shorts (& on a mule!) was enough to drive a whole convent crazy! Okay, crazier. He wears way too much clothing in this one. Livesey was hot, also. Brits!♥️

  34. SOME SPOILERS: A tale of so many tragic mistakes.
    Poor Hazel. Too many things too fast. Her husband is a very good and kind man, but badly mistaken and very inexperienced.
    Squire Reddin is too overwhelming. Either man was not bad. They might have won her permanently if they hadn't rushed her: ironically with either the celibacy or the sex. The novel is very good too. A bit purple, but excellent insights for it's time. No one could make a movie of it now without a lot of gratuitous sex and violence and, aaargh!!! *feminist messages*.
    Jones was really too old for the part, but she does so well anyway. It all works. LOVELY FILM

  37. I was 5 years old when this film was made. I don’t know when I first saw it, surely not then, but it has remained a favorite “lost” movie for me. I won’t go into the whole story. Suffice it to say that Jennifer has always been one of my favorite actresses and the “phrase ‘gone to earth” has always been stuck in my head. Now I know why! THANK YOU for restoring part of my youth to me with this amazing film! I watched “Good Morning, Miss Dove” last night. Lovely! For those who haven’t seen these, watch: “A Portrait of Jenny” and “Madam Bovary.” She was nominated 6 or 7 times for an Academy Award But I think she only won once. She was lovely and I adored her! ?

  42. An odd film, with no setting, that is, no tangible accent or place. Jennifer brings it gravitas, the end a failure..It felt like a stage performance, and the over acting by many sang silent songs. You watch the film for her, and unlike many modern films who never bother to engage you, in those you really dont care what happens to the central characters. She must have been very stunning in real life….. a film that could be re written and given a place to make it real….as it was , she had to carry the film and plot.

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