Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1939
Country: USA
Runtime: 103
Rating: 5.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: William Wyler
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

A Story of Vengeful Thwarted Love

A Poignant Drama Of Chastised Love ! Reckless Hate that made a fighting fury of a stranger !

SINISTER SHADOWS & BURNING LOVE (original print ad - all caps)

I KNOW..HE LOATHES ME AND DESPISES ME. I KNOW..HE MARRIED ME TO SPITE THE WOMAN HE REALLY LOVES! (original print ad - all caps)

I am torn by Desire... tortured by hate!

I am Heathcliff! I love a woman who belongs to another man!... My love was fierce... my hate is burning! I will have vengeance!

Writing by: Emily Brontë - (novel) (as Emily Bronté)
Charles MacArthur - (writer) and
Ben Hecht - (writer)
John Huston - uncredited

Produced by: Samuel Goldwyn - producer

Cast: Merle Oberon - Cathy Earnshaw / Linton
Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff
David Niven - Edgar Linton
Flora Robson - Ellen Dean
Donald Crisp - Dr. Kenneth
Geraldine Fitzgerald - Isabella Linton
Hugh Williams - Hindley Earnshaw
Leo G. Carroll - Joseph
Miles Mander - Lockwood
Cecil Kellaway - Mr. Earnshaw
Cecil Humphreys - Judge Linton

Music: Alfred Newman
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Plot Outline: The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city...
Plot: 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. Earnshaws son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindleys 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 theyre happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh Oil on Canvas, 29 x 36 1/4" (73.7 x 92.1 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Reproduced from photograph, ©2000 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Cathys muff disappears when she turns around after entering the room.

Trivia: There are 16 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• In the final sequence, the spirits of Heathcliff and Cathy are seen walking their favorite pathway. This was added after filming was complete, and because Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon had already moved on to other projects, doubles had to be used.
• The Mitchell Camera Corporation selected Gregg Toland and this picture to be the first to use their new Mitchell BNC camera. This camera model would become the studio standard.
• Vivien Leigh wanted to play the lead role, alongside her then lover and future husband Laurence Olivier, but studio executives decided the role should go to Merle Oberon. They later offered Leigh the part of Isabelle Linton, but she declined and Geraldine Fitzgerald was cast.

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