Edgar Linton has fallen in love with Cathy and soon proposes after Edgar takes her back to Wuthering Heights, she tells Ellen what has happened. Enraged that Cathy would be so entranced by the Lintons' glamor and wealth, he blames the family for her injury and curses them all.Ĭathy fully recuperates while staying for months with the Lintons, then returns home. Heathcliff is forced to leave Cathy in their care. One of the dogs bites Cathy and she suffers a serious leg injury. Cathy and Heathcliff sneak inside the Lintons' estate by climbing over their garden wall, but the dogs are alerted and attack. One night as Cathy and Heathcliff are out together, they hear music and realize that their neighbors, the Linton family, are having a party. Hindley has become dissolute and tyrannical - he hates Heathcliff - even calls him a "gypsy beggar" to his face. About ten years later, the now-grown Heathcliff and Cathy have fallen in love and are meeting secretly on Penniston's Crag. At first reluctant, Cathy eventually welcomes Heathcliff and they become very close, but Hindley treats him as an outcast, especially after Mr. Earnshaw, who brings him home to live with his two children, Cathy and Hindley. And so the main plot begins as a long flashback.Īs a boy, Heathcliff is found on the streets by Mr. When Lockwood says that he doesn't believe in ghosts, Ellen tells him that he might, if she told him the story of Cathy. As soon as Lockwood is gone, Heathcliff frantically calls out to Cathy, runs down the stairs and out of the house, into the snowstorm.Įllen, the housekeeper, tells the amazed Lockwood that he has seen the ghost of Cathy Earnshaw, Heathcliff's only great love who died years ago. It's Cathy!" Lockwood calls Heathcliff and tells him what he saw, whereupon the enraged Heathcliff throws him out of the room.
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. 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. Heathcliff ( Laurence Olivier) and Cathy ( Merle Oberon) meet on Peniston CragĪ traveler named Lockwood is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, despite the cold behavior of his host Heathcliff. In 2007, Wuthering Heights was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Nominated for original score (but losing to The Wizard of Oz) was the prolific film composer Alfred Newman, whose poignant "Cathy's Theme" does so much "to maintain its life as a masterpiece of romantic filmmaking." The 1940 Academy Award for Best Cinematography, black-and-white category, was awarded to Gregg Toland for his work. It earned nominations for eight Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in what many consider Hollywood's greatest single year. The film won the 1939 New York Film Critics Award for Best Film. It was primarily filmed in Thousand Oaks, California, with scenes shot in Wildwood Regional Park and at the current site of California Lutheran University. The novel was adapted for the screen by Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht, and John Huston. The film depicts only 16 of the novel's 34 chapters, eliminating the second generation of characters.
It is based on the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American romantic period drama film directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as the romantic leads.
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