Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

  • Director: William Wyler
  • Writer: Charles MacArthur,Ben Hecht,Emily Brontë
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 7, 1939
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Stürmische Höhen
  • "Wuthering Heights" is a romantic film directed by William Wyler and starring Laurence Olivier and Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson . It was released in the United States on April 13, 1939.
    Based on the novel of the same name by British author Emily Brontë, the film tells the story of Heathcliff, who begins to hate society and seeks revenge after his favorite woman, Casey, marries someone else   . In 1940, Greg Toland won the Best Cinematography Award at the 12th Academy Awards for this film   .

    Details

    • Release date April 7, 1939
    • Filming locations Janss Conejo Ranch, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
    • Production companies The Samuel Goldwyn Company

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $624,643

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $15,493

    Gross worldwide

    $624,643

    Movie reviews

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    • By Americo 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      [Last Film I Watched] Wuthering Heights (1939) 7.9/10

      A truncated screen adaptation of Emily Bronté's magnum opus, William Wyler's WUTHERING HEIGHTS concentrates on the torrid, toxic, fire and brimstone of Cathy and Heathcliff's love tangle within an audience-friendly running time (103 minutes) and squarely omits all the latter-half chapters of the novel.

      Introducing a frame story on a gelid, wind-blustering, snowy night with a spooky but tactfully off-screen phantom of Cathy, the film unspools 40 years back to recount the...

    • By Andy 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      Lawrence proves that he is worthy of Vivien Leigh with his acting skills

      Lawrence Oliver is frightened as helpless and melancholy as a fawn, and as mad and passionate as Hamlet. . . Oliver is definitely not the tallest and most handsome actor, but his performance is artistic and dramatic, and his personality is too charming. No wonder Vivien Leigh likes, admires him, and stays together for twenty years. The eyes and lines are simply a kind of strange magic, elegant, sad, confused, persistent, persevering, worthy of being the "king of drama". The female number two...

    • By Leopold 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      no one survived

      It has been three hours since I arrived at the station at 6:50, when the subway entered the city, and when I found a star father to buy a cup of ice American to extend my life. During the period, I went to the toilet and watched the black and white movie "Wuthering Heights"

      To be honest, it's not a good choice to watch it at this time. The stubborn view of love and the love and hate of the male and female protagonists will undoubtedly add a dark tone to the atmosphere for the meeting a...

    • By Cordelia 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      Wuthering Heights

      When I first saw this movie when I was a teenager, I was amazed at her straightforward humanity and crazy love, and I loved it. So I gave full marks in my heart and went to watch "Wuthering Heights".

      Of course, when I finish watching "Wuthering Heights", I can no longer give her full marks.

      The Wuthering Heights in the movie is much less contradictory and sharp than the novel. The relationship between Ellen and Kathy is too harmonious, the old housekeeper Joseph has also...

    • By Marvin 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      own tragedy

      I heard that there are discrepancies between the movie and the original book. The following is only for the movie. Is the male protagonist the villain? ! Heathcliff, what else do you know besides revenge? The heroine is married and harassing others. The most hateful thing is to seduce Lyndon's sister, who looks hostile to the whole world. The main problem of the heroine lies in the contradiction between herself and reality. She loves the hero, but reality forces her to choose Linden. Even...

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    • By Susanna 2023-09-24 15:17:02

      The director's skill is extraordinary, but the script and heroine are...

    • By Kieran 2023-09-11 19:35:26

      I watched it at a small hotel in...

    • By Ally 2023-09-06 05:37:12

      Love and revenge—the eternal theme of literature. I still like the...

    • By Dane 2022-12-19 11:10:03

      Betrayal and ambition filled his life, and he destroyed himself and the woman he loved. Do people have to bow their heads to reality in the end? Is there no happy ending to reckless...

    • By Destinee 2022-11-05 14:40:05

      A self-respecting male protagonist and a vain and self-indulgent female protagonist torture each other in the fickleness of the female protagonist. . It's unforgivable that the male protagonist still beats the lady. Where does your self-esteem come from? Isn't it given to you by others? Both girls in my family were tricked by that kid. Linton probably roared in his heart, who did I provoke me? ! The adaptation is too romantic, and I can't raise a sense of identity. What about...

    Movie plot

    In the 19th century, on the edge of a gloomy moor in Yorkshire, England, a gypsy boy named Heathcliff was brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Dean. He is loved by the master's daughter, Kathy, but while Kathy loves him, she can't refuse her desire to live a prosperous life, and it is Kathy's neighbor Edgar Linton who can provide this kind of living conditions. Heathcliff learned of this by accident and left quietly. Kathy married...
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    "Wuthering Heights" is one of the classics on the silver screen   . It fully demonstrates the expressive power of film art and is known as one of the films with the highest artistic level. In this black-and-white version of the film, cinematographer Greg Toland captures the gloomy atmosphere of the film well. The film is full of sad and tragic colors, so it is quite infectious   . The film shows the theme of love to the fullest....
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    Movie quotes

    • Cathy: Did Joseph see which way you came?

      Heathcliff: What does it matter? Nothing's real down there. Our life is here.

      Cathy: Yes, milord.

    • Cathy: It would be dreadful if Hindley ever found out.

      Heathcliff: Found out what? That you talk to me once in a while?

      Cathy: I shouldn't talk to you at all. Look at you! You get worse every day. Dirty and unkempt and in rags. Why aren't you a man? Heathcliff, why don't you run away?

      Heathcliff: Run away? From you?

      Cathy: You could come back to me rich and take me away. Why aren't you my prince like we said long ago? Why can't you rescue me, Heathcliff?

      Heathcliff: Cathy, come with me now!

      Cathy: Where?

      Heathcliff: Anywhere!

      Cathy: And live in haystacks and steal our food from the marketplaces? No, Heathcliff. That's not what I want.

      Heathcliff: You just want to send me off. That won't do. I've stayed here and been beaten like a dog. Abused and cursed and driven man, but I stayed just to be near you. Even as a dog! And I'll stay till the end. I'll live and I'll die under this rock!

    • Cathy: Go on, Heathcliff. Run away. Bring me back the world.

      Judge Linton: Pack this fellow off.

      Heathcliff: I'm going. I'm going from here and from this cursed country both.

      Judge Linton: Throw him out!

      Heathcliff: But I'll be back in this house one day, Judge Linton and I'll pay you out. I'll bring this house down in ruins about your heads. That's my curse on you!

      [spits on the floor]

      Heathcliff: On all of you!