Wuthering Heights

1939

Action / Drama / Romance

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 21103 21.1K

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Plot summary

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

Director

William Wyler Photo
William Wyler

Top cast

Geraldine Fitzgerald Photo
Geraldine Fitzgerald as Isabella
Laurence Olivier Photo
Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff
David Niven Photo
David Niven as Edgar
Donald Crisp Photo
Donald Crisp as Dr. Kenneth
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955.36 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 2
1.73 GB
1424*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bigticket-36199 7 / 10

"I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul!"

"Wuthering Heights" is a tragic romantic drama and an adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel of the same name, with a screenplay based solely on the first part of the book.We follow a traveler, lost in a snowstorm, who finds shelter at the estate of a cold and ruthless host named Heathcliff. Reluctantly, Heathcliff allows him to stay in an upstairs room. During the night, the traveler is awakened by a chilling draft that pushes open the window shutters. Just as he moves to close them, he feels an icy hand grasp his own and hears the ghostly voice of a woman calling Heathcliff's name. Shaken, he calls for his host and recounts the eerie experience. Heathcliff, suddenly enraged and agitated, rushes out into the blizzard, shouting a woman's name into the snowy void. Ellen, the housekeeper, tells the stunned guest that he has heard and felt the presence of Catherine "Cathy" Earnshaw's spirit - Heathcliff's great love, who died many years ago...Director William Wyler crafts an intense yet somber melodrama of deliberate pacing, one that faithfully captures the atmosphere of the novel's portion on which the screenplay is based. The film's bleak, wintry tone can stir melancholy, even depressive feelings in its audience. Dynamic twists or humor remain overshadowed by the overpowering emotional currents endured by the protagonists. Love, hatred, betrayal, pride, and revenge pulse through nearly every scene.The production design is lavish and perfectly aligned with the characters' inner states. Long takes of the harsh, wind-swept Yorkshire moors and marshes are striking, while mist and shadow reveal the darkest corners of the main characters' souls. The interior of the house resembles a cold prison, burdened with words and secrets from the past that no one can escape. Dialogue is often heated and fierce, heightening the melodramatic atmosphere.Thematically, the film explores impossible love across rigid class divisions, destructive passion steeped in moral ambiguity, and the inability of young people to temper pride and ego in pursuit of happiness. It asks the question: can love truly be a curse that destroys lives and leaves only despair, even when a fleeting ray of sunlight appears on the horizon?Laurence Olivier plays Heathcliff with an icy, almost demonic energy. His character is wounded, yet every scar fuels his drive for revenge, beneath which smolder deep sorrow and bitterness. Heathcliff is not merely a man tormented by unrequited love - he is also a manipulator and an avenger. Merle Oberon portrays Catherine "Cathy" Earnshaw Linton as a blend of wild cruelty and childlike innocence - unpredictable, passionate, and unwilling to give up "the game" regardless of the consequences.David Niven embodies Edgar Linton, a kind and well-mannered gentleman swept up by the stormy passions between Heathcliff and Cathy, fully aware that his love will never be returned in equal measure. Geraldine Fitzgerald gives life to Isabella Linton, a naïve young woman who becomes a victim of the infernal whirlwind from which there is no escape, carrying the scars of her own idealism.Flora Robson, as Ellen Dean, serves as the moral backbone of the film - a quiet storyteller trying to bring a touch of warmth to the coldness of Wuthering Heights. Hugh Williams imbues Hindley Earnshaw with a bitter, self-destructive nature tainted by envy and malice."Wuthering Heights" is an intensely charged melodrama that faithfully conveys the spirit of Emily Brontë's novel. Its twists and turns can both freeze and burn the heart. I believe it to be a remarkable experience for every true lover of the genre.
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Reviewed by Spondonman 8 / 10

Shoot that poison arrow in my heart

I saw this film many years before I read the book, I know which I prefer - OK, maybe with rose-tinted spectacles on. The book by Emily Bronte is an undeniable classic as is this film version but imho this is a much better use of one hundred and five minutes of life. And though they keep trying, this will remain the best condensation of the story, Wuthering Lites c/o the original Fantasy Factory.

Waif brought into well off Yorkshire home, grows up to fall in violent love with the masters daughter and violent hate with the son, and eventually owns the estate but not the woman. Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon are perfect as the manic birds of a feather Heathcliff and Cathy with David Niven as the elegant sidelined husband. Everyone is portrayed as faulty or unlikeable in some way, romance is seen as hopeless childishness leading at best to passionate petulance, at worst to death; love is as strange as people. It's relentlessly beautiful stuff, gloriously photographed by Gregg Toland with a glowing atmosphere and a most assured production than has not been possible to achieve again. The spirit of nonsensical romance has been lost in this more cynical age. Favourite bits: Miles Mander's melodramatics at the beginning resulting in Flora Robson's picture-long flashback; the windswept pair on the rocks; the pair gatecrashing the dance; Oberon's unravelling to Niven and the tear-jerking finale. Director William Wyler had a long and illustrious career, but to my mind he never bettered this effort.

Watch it and weep; not only at the film's content but for a cinematic era long dead and never coming back.

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