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Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.
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Hilary Heath
- Isabella Linton
- (as Hilary Dwyer)
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- TriviaOliver Reed briefly sought the lead role.
- GoofsAfter Cathy has died Heathcliff at her grave site can't bear it and pounds his head against the nearby tree. As he runs his fingers down the tree you can see that that bark is made of perhaps rubber.
- Quotes
Nellie: It's for god to punish the wicked.
Heathcliff: Why should god have all the satisfaction?
- Crazy creditsAfter a funeral scene, the opening credits appear in blue letters on a background of darkened, almost silhouette like, Yorkshire moor landscapes, scenes which appear again later in the film.
- Alternate versionsA video released in the UK in the '80s ran only 80 minutes and was rated 'U', but the 2003 submission was the full 100 minute version and rated 'PG'
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Untold Truth of James Bond (2020)
- SoundtracksI Was Born in Love With You
(uncredited)
Words by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Music by Michel Legrand
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Timothy Dalton IS Heathcliff!!
Timothy Dalton plays Heathcliff as no one before or since has played him. He is passionate and brooding, cruel and tender. His bright eyes pierce through Cathy's soul, and our own, when he returns from his wanderings to find her married to Edgar Linton.
The rest of the cast is also well-chosen. Anna Calder-Marshall, not as conventionally beautiful as other Cathy's have been, nonetheless, portrays the charisma of the character and her possessive, obsessive personality with brilliant accuracy. Ian Ogilvy as Edgar is just the right touch of gentle lover and aristocratic snob, so that it is believable that Cathy might actually fall for him, on the surface at any rate.
This was Mr. Dalton's first foray into the gothic depths of the Bronte sisters' works. His second, as Mr. Rochester in the fine BBC version (1985) of Jane Eyre, was just as compelling. Now if he were just a few inches shorter, we could get him to play the French teacher in a movie of Villette!!
The rest of the cast is also well-chosen. Anna Calder-Marshall, not as conventionally beautiful as other Cathy's have been, nonetheless, portrays the charisma of the character and her possessive, obsessive personality with brilliant accuracy. Ian Ogilvy as Edgar is just the right touch of gentle lover and aristocratic snob, so that it is believable that Cathy might actually fall for him, on the surface at any rate.
This was Mr. Dalton's first foray into the gothic depths of the Bronte sisters' works. His second, as Mr. Rochester in the fine BBC version (1985) of Jane Eyre, was just as compelling. Now if he were just a few inches shorter, we could get him to play the French teacher in a movie of Villette!!
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- May 21, 1999
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- Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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- Blubberhouses, Otley, North Yorkshire, England, UK(on location)
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