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Uncle Silas. (film) Uncle Silas (US: The Inheritance) is a 1947 British drama film directed by Charles Frank and starring Jean Simmons, Katina Paxinou and Derrick De Marney. [4] It is an adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu 's 1864 novel Uncle Silas in which an heiress is pursued by her uncle, who craves her money following her father's death. [5]
Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike.
Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's novel, this Gothic mystery follows Maud (Lucy Fleming) in her struggle against the sinister machinations of her Uncle Silas (Robert Eddison). Maud lives on her father's ...
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Uncle Silas (US: The Inheritance) is a 1947 British drama film directed by Charles Frank and starring Jean Simmons, Katina Paxinou and Derrick De Marney. [4] It is an adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 novel Uncle Silas in which an heiress is pursued by her uncle, who craves her money following her father's death. [5]
In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction. 477 pages, Paperback.
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Sep 14, 2024 · The author, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, is best remembered for perfecting the ‘psychological’ ghost story (Green Tea, Carmilla, etc.), but in Uncle Silas he wrote a Jane Eyre-flavoured ‘sensation’ novel dubbed by David Punter ‘the first properly Gothic masterpiece in England since Melmoth the Wanderer.’
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After her father's death, Maud, a young heiress, is sent to live with her Uncle Silas. She finds her new guardian living in a gothic nightmare of a mansion, and soon realizes that he wishes to murder her and claim her inheritance.
