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Wuthering Heights (1939) 7.7
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. Director:William Wyler |
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| Merle Oberon | ... | ||
| Laurence Olivier | ... | ||
| David Niven | ... | ||
| Flora Robson | ... | ||
| Donald Crisp | ... | ||
| Geraldine Fitzgerald | ... | ||
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Hugh Williams | ... | |
| Leo G. Carroll | ... | ||
| Miles Mander | ... | ||
| Cecil Kellaway | ... | ||
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Cecil Humphreys | ... | |
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Sarita Wooton | ... |
Cathy (as a child)
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Rex Downing | ... | |
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The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be done. Written by garykmcd
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servant | children | moors | english literature | lifting person in air |Taglines:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
7 April 1939 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cumbres borrascosas See more »Company Credits
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[thunderbolt]
Cathy: Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known, I've had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.
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(1778) (uncredited)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Played by Alice Ehlers on harpsichord
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Trivia
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 25, 1946 with Merle Oberon reprising her film role. See more »Goofs
Cathy's muff disappears when she turns around after entering the room. See more »Quotes
Cathy: He seems to take pleasure in being mean and brutal. And yet, he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. And Linton's is as different as frost from fire... Ellen, I AM Heathcliff.[thunderbolt]
Cathy: Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known, I've had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.
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Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: On the barren Yorkshire moors in England, a hundred years ago, stood a house as bleak and desolate as the wastes around it. Only a stranger lost in a storm would have dared to knock at the door of Wuthering Heights. See more »Soundtracks
Piano Sonata in A major, K.331: Rondo alla Turca(1778) (uncredited)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Played by Alice Ehlers on harpsichord
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I have not read the Emily Bronte novel on which this film is based so obviously I cannot comment on the effectiveness of it as an adaptation (I understand that almost the entire second half of the book was excised). However, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Oberon and especially Olivier, one of my favorites, are very convincing and moving as the doomed lovers Cathy and Heathcliff (according to my friend, Heathcliff is written as being much more likeable in the film than in the book). The supporting cast was also very good. Wuthering Heights just deals very poignantly with the effect that birth and status have on people's lives. Yet another winner from Wyler. My score 9/10.