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Wuthering Heights

  • 19391939
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  • 1h 44m
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
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...
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A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
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    • William Wyler
  • Writers
    • Charles MacArthur(screen play)
    • Ben Hecht(screen play)
    • Emily Brontë(from the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Merle Oberon
    • Laurence Olivier
    • David Niven
    • William Wyler
  • Writers
    • Charles MacArthur(screen play)
    • Ben Hecht(screen play)
    • Emily Brontë(from the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Merle Oberon
    • Laurence Olivier
    • David Niven
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 159User reviews
    • 37Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (1939)
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    Lobby Card #3 from the 1955 Rerelease set, Lobby Card, 14" x 11"
    Rex Downing and Sarita Wooton in Wuthering Heights (1939)
    Rex Downing and Sarita Wooton in Wuthering Heights (1939)
    Rex Downing, Cecil Kellaway, Flora Robson, Douglas Scott, and Sarita Wooton in Wuthering Heights (1939)
    Rex Downing, Cecil Kellaway, Flora Robson, and Sarita Wooton in Wuthering Heights (1939)
    Flora Robson and Hugh Williams in Wuthering Heights (1939)
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    Laurence Olivier and Hugh Williams in Wuthering Heights (1939)
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    Merle Oberon
    Merle Oberon
    • Cathy
    Laurence Olivier
    Laurence Olivier
    • Heathcliff
    David Niven
    David Niven
    • Edgar
    Flora Robson
    Flora Robson
    • Ellen
    Donald Crisp
    Donald Crisp
    • Dr. Kenneth
    Geraldine Fitzgerald
    Geraldine Fitzgerald
    • Isabella
    Hugh Williams
    Hugh Williams
    • Hindley
    Leo G. Carroll
    Leo G. Carroll
    • Joseph
    Miles Mander
    Miles Mander
    • Lockwood
    Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway
    • Earnshaw
    Cecil Humphreys
    • Judge Linton
    Sarita Wooton
    • Cathy (as a child)
    • (as Sarita Wooten)
    Rex Downing
    Rex Downing
    • Heathcliff (as a child)
    Douglas Scott
    Douglas Scott
    • Hindley (as a child)
    Frank Benson
    • Heathcliff Servant
    • (uncredited)
    Romaine Callender
    Romaine Callender
    • Robert
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Clucas
    • Little Boy
    • (uncredited)
    Vernon Downing
    • Giles
    • (uncredited)
      • William Wyler
    • Writers
      • Charles MacArthur(screen play)
      • Ben Hecht(screen play)
      • Emily Brontë(from the novel by)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      Laurence Olivier found himself becoming increasingly annoyed with director William Wyler's exhausting style of filmmaking. After yet another take, he is said to have exclaimed, "For God's sake, I did it sitting down. I did it with a smile. I did it with a smirk. I did it scratching my ear. I did it with my back to the camera. How do you want me to do it?" Wyler's retort was, "I want it better." However, Olivier later said these multiple takes helped him learn to succeed as a movie actor.
    • Goofs
      Though the social situations, and even the soundtrack, are consistent with the novel's timeframe of 1770-1801, the Colonial/Napoleonic era, the costumes are an odd mix of mid-Victorian and American Civil War.
    • Quotes

      Heathcliff: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul.

    • 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.
    • Connections
      Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler (1976)
    • Soundtracks
      Piano Sonata in A major, K.331: Rondo alla Turca
      (1778) (uncredited)

      Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Played by Alice Ehlers on harpsichord

    User reviews159

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    Haunted
    Great literature enriches the soul. The Brontes created great literature because they invented so much of what it means. They invented ways of observing the soul that hadn't already been mined by Shakespeare. If you want a great film that celebrates, explores, exploits Bronte, you can't escape the reality that you'd have to stretch film the same way Charlotte stretched perspective.

    Didn't happen here. Olivier seemed good enough at what he knew (stage acting) but that isn't bendable to great experiences in film. Never was.

    But you might want to watch this for another reason. The dialog and acting are ordinarily conceived. But the cinematography is extraordinary, from the very special Greg Toland. Greg DID stretch cinema in the way we mentioned. His greys have depth. When he photographs the heath, we feel the atmosphere as if the mist had emotion.

    The interiors of the house are magnificent in design. And Toland's lighting and framing are so haunting.

    This film is why Orson Welles wanted him on "Citizen Kane." You need to watch it to see where much of the disembodied ghost-observer comes from. With Toland, Cathy defines what we see and how.

    But the actual story? Go read it instead.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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    • tedg
    • Nov 3, 2005

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    • Release date
      • April 7, 1939 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Janss Conejo Ranch, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
    • Production company
      • The Samuel Goldwyn Company
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    • 1 hour 44 minutes
      • Black and White

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