This movie was more like a good, gothic, horror film

When you watch the 1943 JANE EYRE as a youngster, like I did, you have no idea this was Emily Bronte's classic drama novel. Instead you thought you were watching a good, old-fashioned, black-and-white, haunted house horror film. The black-and-white film set the overtones. The scene was set in a dark, gloomy, old English countryside mansion, too large with too few people in it; too dark at night. Then the scary, insane person wandering the dark hallways in the dark of night put the horror tag on the movie. I don't think the director had that in mind when filming the movie. But he was inadvertently decades ahead of his time in employing light, shadow, dark, gothic-mood-setting, and really not showing the the spook/creature in its entirety. You never saw the insane wife fully for long, which was an excellent technique later rediscovered in quality horror gothic films decades later.