A traveler named Lockwood is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, despite the cold behavior of his host Heathcliff. Late that night, after being shown into an upstairs room that was once a bridal chamber, Lockwood is awakened by a cold draft and finds the window shutter flapping back and forth. Just as he is about to close it, he feels an icy hand clutching his and sees a woman outside calling "Heathcliff, let me in! I'm lost in the moors. It's Cathy!" Lockwood calls Heathcliff and tells him what he saw, whereupon the enraged Heathcliff throws him out of the room. As soon as Lockwood is gone, Heathcliff frantically calls out to Cathy, runs down the stairs and out into the snowstorm. Ellen, the housekeeper, tells the amazed Lockwood that he has seen the ghost of Cathy Earnshaw, Heathcliff's only great love who died years ago. When Lockwood says that he doesn't believe in ghosts, Ellen tells him that he might, if she told him the story of Cathy, and he asks her to do so, intrigued.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Drama, Romance |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Samuel Goldwyn |
Directed By: | William Wyler |
Written By: | John Huston, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Emily Brontë |
Cast: | Sarita Wooton, Philip Winter, Douglas Scott, Cecil Kellaway, Vernon Downing, Helena Grant, Cecil Humphreys, Frank Benson, Hugh Williams, Harold Entwistle, Merle Oberon, Richard Clucas, William Stelling, Laurence Olivier, Tiny Jones, Peter Gowland, Rex Downing, Miles Mander, Schuyler Standish, Donald Crisp, Leo G. Carroll, Geraldine Fitzgerald, David Niven, Alice Ehlers, Edmund Mortimer, Flora Robson, Sam Harris, Romaine Callender, Eric Wilton |
In Theaters: | Apr 07, 1939 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 44 minutes |
Production: | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
Box Office: | $624,643 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |