Wuthering Heights (1939) |
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Wuthering Heights Cast |
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Laurence Olivier
(as Heathcliff)
with Merle Oberon
(as Cathy)
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Other InformationPlot SummaryThe 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 comp... (www.imdb.com/title/tt0032145/plotsummary) TaglineI am Heathcliff! I love a woman who belongs to another man!... My love was fierce... my hate is burning! I will have vengeance! I am torn by Desire... tortured by hate! 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) SINISTER SHADOWS & BURNING LOVE (original print ad - all caps) A Poignant Drama Of Chastised Love ! Reckless Hate that made a fighting fury of a stranger ! A Story of Vengeful Thwarted Love Related Movies"Vendaval" [Version of] (Year of movie: 1973) "O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes" [Version of] (Year of movie: 1967) Dil Diya Dard Liya [Version of] (Year of movie: 1966) "Cumbres borrascosas" [Version of] (Year of movie: 1963) "The DuPont Show of the Month: Wuthering Heights (#1.9)" [Version of] (Year of movie: 1958) Abismos de pasión [Version of] (Year of movie: 1954) Wuthering Heights [Version of] (Year of movie: 1920) |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Edgar Linton: Well, what brought about this amazing transformation? Did you discover a gold mine in the New World, or perhaps you fell heir to a fortune?
Heathcliff: The truth is I remembered that my father was an emperor of China and my mother was an Indian queen, and I went out and claimed my inheritance. It all turned out just as you once suspected, Cathy: that I had been kidnapped by wicked sailors and brought to England; that I was of noble birth. Isabella: If Cathy died... I might begin to live. Dr. Kenneth: Ask your husband to call another doctor in future. Whoever dwells in this house is beyond my healing arts. Dr. Kenneth: Hindley, why don`t you hit yourself over the head with a hammer when you wake up every morning?
Hindley: Why?
Dr. Kenneth: Well, if you do, you`ll achieve virtually the same results as you do with a bottle of whiskey, with much less wear and tear on the kidneys. Ellen: Oh, you`re lovely, Miss Cathy. Lovely.
Cathy: That`s a very silly lie. I`m not lovely. What I am is very brilliant. I have a wonderful brain.
Ellen: Indeed.
Cathy: It enables me to be superior to myself. There`s nothing to be gained by just looking pretty like Isabella. Every beauty mark must conceal a thought and every curl be full of humor as well as brilliantine. Cathy: I told you, Ellen. When he went away that night in the rain, I told you I belonged to him, that he was my life, my being. Heathcliff: My tears don`t love you, Cathy. They blight and curse and damn you!
Cathy: Heathcliff, don`t break my heart.
Heathcliff: Oh Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it! Heathcliff: Why are your eyes always empty? Like Linton`s eyes.
Isabella: They`re not empty, if you`d only look deeper. Look at me. I`m pretty. I`m a woman and I love you. You`re all of life to me. Let me be a single breath of it for you. Cathy: He seems to take pleasure in being mean and brutal. And yet, he`s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. And Linton`s is as different as frost from fire... Ellen, I AM Heathcliff.
[thunderbolt]
Cathy: Everything he`s suffered, I`ve suffered. The little happiness he`s ever known, I`ve had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me. Heathcliff: Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You`ll never love him, but you`ll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity. 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 mad, but I stayed just to be near you, even as a dog. And I`ll stay `til the end. I`ll live and I`ll die under this rock. Hindley: If she`s run off with that gypsy scum, let her run. Let her run through storm and Hell. They`re birds of a feather and the Devil can take them both. Now, get me a bottle. Heathcliff: I want to crawl to her feet, whimper to be forgiven... for loving me. For needing her more than my own life... for belonging to her more than my own soul. 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! 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: 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, as a child: Oh, it`s a wonderful castle! Heathcliff, let`s never leave it.
Heathcliff, as a child: Never in our lives! Let all the world confess, that there is not in all the world a more beautiful damsel than the Princess Catherine of Yorkshire.
Cathy, as a child: But I - I`m still your slave.
Heathcliff, as a child: No, Cathy. I now make you my queen. Whatever happens out there, here you will always be my queen. Cathy: Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.
Heathcliff: The moors and I will never change. Don`t you, Cathy.
Cathy: I can`t. I can`t. No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me now; standing on this hill with you. This is me forever. Cathy: Are you enjoying yourself, Heathcliff?
Heathcliff: I`ve had the pleasure of watching you.
Cathy: You`re very grand, Heathcliff. So handsome. Looking at you tonight I could not help but remember how things used to be.
Heathcliff: They used to be better.
Cathy: Don`t pretend life hasn`t improved for you.
Heathcliff: Life has ended for me.
[they pause and look off the balcony in silence]
Heathcliff: How can you stand here beside me and pretend not to remember? Not to know that my heart is breaking for you? That your face is the wonderful light burning in all this darkness?
Cathy: Heathcliff, no. I forbid it.
Heathcliff: Do you forbid what your heart is saying to you now?
Cathy: It`s saying nothing.
Heathcliff: I can hear it louder than the music. Oh, Cathy. Cathy.
Cathy: I`m not the Cathy that was. Can you understand that? I`m somebody else. I`m another man`s wife, and he loves me. And I love him.
Heathcliff: If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime he couldn`t love you as much as I do in a single day. Not he. Not the world. Not even you, Cathy, can come between us.
Cathy: Heathcliff, you must go away. You must leave this house and never come back to it. I never want to see your face again or listen to your voice again as long as I live.
Heathcliff: You lie! Why do you think I`m here tonight? Because you willed it. You willed me here across the sea. Heathcliff: If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn`t love you as much as I do in a single day. Heathcliff: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul.Trivia Both of the leading players began work on the film miserable at having to leave their loved ones back in England. Olivier was missing his fiancée Vivien Leigh and Oberon had only recently fallen in love with film producer Alexander Korda. Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier apparently detested each other. Legend has it that when William Wyler yelled "Cut!" after a particularly romantic scene, Oberon shouted back to her director about her co-star "Tell him to stop spitting at me!" Producer Samuel Goldwyn felt that script was too dark for a romance movie, so he asked several writers to do a rewrite on the script, including a young John Huston, who said that the script needed no rewrite, it was perfect as it was. The film was not a big financial success when first released. It had to be re-released years later to earn a profit. Real heather was imported from England and re-planted in California to help simulate the look of the moors. Montreal, Quebec, Canada-April 6, 1939: "Wuthering Heights" may be shown in Quebec Province if certain excisions are made, Arthur Laramee, censor chairman said yesterday. He denied that the film had been formally banned. Los Angeles - April 5, 1939: Samuel Goldwyn has withdrawn "Wuthering Heights" from the entire province of Quebec. Quebec censors demanded deletions because certain sequences dealt with divorce and infidelity, situations long frowned upon by the Quebeck board. Goldwyn refused to make the cuts. Whether the picture will play in other provinces is not known. Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Robert Newton were all considered for the part of Heathcliff. Laurence Olivier found himself becoming increasingly annoyed with William Wyler`s exhausting style of film-making. After yet another take, he is said to have exclaimed, "For God`s sake, I did it sitting down. I did it with a smile. I did it with a smirk. I did it scratching my ear. I did it with my back to the camera. How do you want me to do it?" Wyler`s retort was, "I want it better." In a departure from the novel, there is an afterlife scene in which we see Heathcliff and Cathy walking hand in hand, visiting their favorite place, Penistone Crag. Wyler hated the scene and didn`t want to do it but Samuel Goldwyn vetoed him on that score. Goldwyn subsequently claimed, "I made "Wuthering Heights", Wyler only directed it." Samuel Goldwyn later claimed that this was his favorite production. The movie covers roughly the first 16 of the book`s 34 chapters. 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. 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. 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. | ||
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