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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783100951
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, NTSC
ISBN: 6302278929
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: December 12, 1994
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 13, 1939
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One of the most compelling tragic romances ever captured on film, Wuthering Heights is an exquisite tale of doomed love and miscalculated intentions. Though only half of Emily Bronte's classic tale of Heathcliff and Catherine was filmed by director William Wyler, it lacks for nothing.
The story begins when a Yorkshire gentleman farmer brings home a raggedy gypsy boy, Heathcliff, and raises him as his son. The boy grows to love his stepsister Catherine, with catastrophic results. Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon were perfectly cast as the mismatched lovers, with Olivier brooding and despairing, Oberon ethereal and enchanting. This won cinematographer Gregg Toland a much-deserved Oscar for his haunting and evocative depiction of mid-19th century English moors. (Quite a trick, as this was shot in California!) Though nominated for seven other Oscars, it won none of them, as it was released in 1939, one of the best years in Hollywood history and the same year as Gone with the Wind. Interestingly, the script was written by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, best known for their witty 1931 flick, The Front Page. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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"Wuthering Heights" is William Wyler's 1939 classic. It was very much in the shadow of "Gone with the wind" and "The Wizard of Oz",with its dark story of tragic,forbidden love. Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon are magnificent as the doomed lovers Heathcliff and Cathy. We see their idyllic childhood days upon the moors, later eclipsed when Cathy marries the aristocratic Edgar (David Niven) Their forbidden love blooms despite their marriages to other people, flowering in their children.
"Wuthering Heights" has Olivier at his least histironic,and most potent. He is excellent as the brooding,bitter Heathcliff. Merle Oberon is torn between the proper husband and the wild,gypsy stepbrother. William Wyler managed to turn the California wilds into the English moors. It's appropriately gloomy. While GWTW and "Oz" have glorious color, "Wuthering" is brooding and dark. "Wuthering Heights" goes into the wild of the human heart.
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Life is so hard. This movie helps me in my belief about life, love. death. Excellent classic
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The 1939 version of Wuthering Heights may be a Sam Goldwyn picture but here at least he has the taste not to bury it under his usual excessive (over)production values and let the mostly British cast get on with it under William Wyler's inspired direction, with screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur saving their reverence for the characters and spirit of Emily Bronte's novel rather than the set dressing and place-setting details which obsess modern costume pictures.
The film grips from its atmospheric opening to its tragic and genuinely moving conclusion and while it may end at chapter 17 it never soft-peddles the characters - neither good nor bad, they all choose their own personal Hells and have to live with the consequences. Even if you're no admirer of Laurence Olivier, you will be astonished at how his mixture of ruthlessness and emotional vulnerability makes the part his own forever. Merle Oberon's mercurial Cathy, torn between Olivier's force of nature and David ... Read More
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I remember this film well,but in a hazy way....Merle Oberon after she dies, running with Laurence Olivier to gather heather she loved.
To me , this is one of the top romantic classics...the cinematography was interesting and very artistic. Each scene seemed to be filmed to capture the feeling of that moment.
Either Merle in all her brilliance resting in the sun, or the fading scene of these two lovers wandering off to the heather.
I just cannot express rightfully the greatness and depth of this film.
Love so strong it lives on after they've died.
Highly recommended !
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Few films explore the depths of dysfunction quite like the 1939 version of "Wuthering Heights." It is perhaps one of the greatest love stories ever captured on film, great because it is more than just a love story; it is a portrait of the long term results of alcoholism and child abuse. Based, of course, upon the novel of the same name, the film stops after the first few chapters. The book, however, goes on to show with immense psychological detail how the abused Heathcliff himself becomes an abuser and replicates, to the best of his ability, the circumstances in which he was mistreated. The film captures in a short but intense manner the brilliance of the original story-telling.
In spite of the all the melodrama, the 1939 "Wuthering Heights" is a subtle film compared to the remakes. There are no sex or rape scenes, little bloodshed, just phenomenal acting and a stirring score. When Hindley places his muddy boot on Heathcliff's hands, one feels the humiliation, the degradation. ... Read More
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