The Heiress is a splendid job of recreating a century-old era and three characters thereof. William Wyler has made a fine film, avoiding the pitfalls of costume drama.

In place of the relentless irony of James’s omniscient narrator, Wyler asks us to take the characters cinematically - at face value.

Her transformation was so surprising! Very entertaining

The Heiress (1949), as the theatrical poster declared, is "a truly great motion picture" - a bleak tale of crushed, heartbroken expectations and incisively-harsh retribution. The top-line, prestige production was directed by William Wyler...