Wuthering Heights (1953)

Directed by

Rudolph Cartier

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man named Heathcliff is consumed by a destructive love for Catherine Earnshaw on the Yorkshire moors. Their turbulent relationship haunts both their lives and the lives of those around them for years.

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What happens

Wuthering Heights is a 1953 British TV production of Emily Brontë's classic 1847 novel. It was made because Richard Todd, then at the height of his film popularity, expressed interest in playing Heathcliff and the BBC arranged for an adaptation to be made. Todd wrote in his memoirs that he was approached to make it by Michael Barry and Rudolph Cartier. He was making a French film The Bed at the time. Todd said the production was "to break new ground: far from being static with few camera angles, we had over 70 different set-ups to contend with and several cameras to shoot them." The production was very popular, although no recordings are thought to have survived. Kneale's script was remade on television in Australia in 1959. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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