Gone to Earth (1950) is a film by the
British-based director-writer team of
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars
Jennifer Jones,
David Farrar and
Cyril Cusack and features
Esmond Knight. The film was significantly changed for the American market by
David O. Selznick and retitled
The Wild Heart.
Gone to Earth is based on the 1917 novel of the same name
[Gone to Earth] by author
Mary Webb. The novel was all but ignored when it first appeared, but became widely known in the 1930s, as the
neo-romantic revival gathered pace, even inspiring an even more famous and wickedly funny parody,
Stella Gibbons's
Cold Comfort Farm.