Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

Wuthering Heights (Original Title: Wuthering Heights ), also known as Wuthering Heights, is an American feature film from 1939, based on the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Directed by William Wyler, the screenplay is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The Samuel Goldwyn Company produced the film.

Action

Heathcliff lives as a foster son in Wuthering Heights, the house of the good-hearted Earnshaw. He loves his stepsister Cathy and she him. When the old Earnshaw dies, banished his son and heir Hindley the hated Heathcliff in the stable. From now on, the stepbrother live as a simple servant. The humiliation adhere to, especially since Cathy is being courted by the wealthy Edgar Linton. Finally, Heathcliff and Cathy leaves the house.

In South America it comes to wealth. One day, Heathcliff returns as a made ​​man, but Cathy has married Edgar Linton now. Hindley has become an alcoholic and completely over-indebted. Heathcliff buys Wuthering Heights and marries Edgar's sister, in order to take revenge on the rival and for Cathy's alleged infidelity.

Jealousy, wounded pride and the still existing passion eventually all lead to disaster. Cathy dies of a broken heart.

Awards

The cinematographer Gregg Toland received an Oscar for his work in the category of Best black and white camera. The film was also in the categories Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (Laurence Olivier), Best Supporting Actress ( Geraldine Fitzgerald ), nominated Best Original Score and Best Art Direction.

Wuthering Heights 1939 also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture.

In 2007 the film was added to the National Film Registry.

Reviews

  • Filmdienst 11/1992: " Wildly romantic, excellently played and brilliantly photographed melodrama on the novel by Emily Brontë, at the same time a study of the" adventure Love ", in which act the two main characters as representatives of irreconcilable principles An exceptional, gloomy Hollywood. classic, the " lust of the eyes " prepared in the proper sense. "
  • Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " (1990): " A film about entanglements and excess of emotions, ( ... ) a shortcoming of the miscast Olivier. " ( Rating: 3 stars = very good)

DVD Release

  • Wuthering Heights. MGM Home Entertainment 2004

Soundtrack

  • Alfred Newman: Wuthering Heights. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Membrane / Mousiki Akti, Hamburg and Athens 2004, Media -No. 221856-207 - digitally restored original recording of the soundtrack (mono ), recorded under the composer's direction
  • Alfred Newman: Wuthering Heights. Suite. In: Wuthering Heights. A Tribute to Alfred Newman. Koch International, Port Washington in 1997, recordings no. 3-7376-2 H1 - digital stereo new recording of excerpts of film music by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Kaufman
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