Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
1939 · Drama · United States
1h 43m
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.
lettucel0rd!
3.5
Wyler fully expected me to believe that the fully white man on my screen was somehow half Chinese and Indian..? Wuthering Heights (1939) lacked the passion that is signature for a truly gothic story. not to mention a whole half of the book was left out, which would have completed Heathcliffs revenge arc and fleshed out his characters motivations as also being class driven, not just romantically driven. i think the problem was they tried to make it too much into a romance film, when Wuthering Heights tackles more than that (that isn’t to say there was no class commentary, because there was, IT JUST SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER). Heathcliff’s “haunt me, then” scene in the book was full of so much visceral emotion, that the film’s fell kind of flat in comparison.
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