A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
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Title: Wuthering Heights (1939)
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Merle Oberon | ... | Cathy | |
| Laurence Olivier | ... | Heathcliff | |
| David Niven | ... | Edgar | |
| Flora Robson | ... | Ellen Dean | |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Dr. Kenneth | |
| Geraldine Fitzgerald | ... | Isabella | |
| Hugh Williams | ... | Hindley | |
| Leo G. Carroll | ... | Joseph | |
| Miles Mander | ... | Lockwood | |
| Cecil Kellaway | ... | Earnshaw | |
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Cecil Humphreys | ... | Judge Linton |
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Sarita Wooton | ... | Cathy (as a child) (as Sarita Wooten) |
| Rex Downing | ... | Heathcliff (as a child) | |
| Douglas Scott | ... | Hindley (as a child) | |
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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 lives 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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I am Heathcliff! I love a woman who belongs to another man!... My love was fierce... my hate is burning! I will have vengeance! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
7 April 1939 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cumbres borrascosas See more »Edit
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Gross USA:
$593,914, 31 December 1989Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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(1778) (uncredited)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Played by Alice Ehlers on harpsichord
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The film came in 13 days over schedule and more than $100,000 over budget. See more »Goofs
Near the end of the deathbed scene, Cathy has her arms around Heathcliff's neck, and takes them away. When the camera angle changes, her arms are around his neck again. See more »Quotes
Heathcliff: If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.See more »
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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This classic version of the Bronte novel is probably familiar to most movie fans, and with good reason. Although the recent Ralph Fiennes version is also excellent, nothing can quite surpass the 1939 film's bleak black-and-white cinematography or the impassioned performance of Laurence Olivier. Some of us still mourn that his then-wife, Vivien Leigh, wasn't granted her wish to be cast as Catherine, but Merle Oberon is nonetheless excellent: her Catherine isn't quite likable, but then, she isn't supposed to be. Instead of sugar-coating the story as Hollywood is so wont to do, the filmmakers give us Cathy and Heathcliff as they should be: ruthless, selfish, destructive, and fascinating. The only major drawback is the saccharine musical score, which tries to make this wild, haunting story into a candy-box romance. Fortunately, all the other elements resist this tendency. Even though the film only covers half the novel, you'll find it satisfying and unforgettable.