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Watch: Wuthering Heights 1939 123movies, Full Movie Online – The story of unfortunate lovers Cathy (Merle Oberon) and Heathcliff (Sir Laurence Olivier) who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their lives apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father, Mr. Earnshaw (Cecil Kellaway) brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later, Cathy’s brother, Hindley (Hugh Williams), now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out, forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them, and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Edgar Linton (David Niven), at which point, Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man, but little can be done..
Plot: The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw’s son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley’s sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they’re happy — until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
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	7.5/10 Votes: 18,392
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	N/A Votes: 211 Popularity: 18.92 | TMDB

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I venture to suggest that this wonderfully evocative adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic story will never be surpassed. The novel is essentially a tale of lost love and the trio of Merle Oberon (“Cathy”), Laurence Olivier (“Heathcliffe”) and David Niven (“Edgar”) manage to encapsulate all the emotions of sadness, of bitterness and of despair superbly. “Heathcliffe” is the abandoned boy brought to the home of the wealthy “Earnshaw” family by Cecil Kellaway where he gradually falls in love with daughter “Cathy”. When the old man dies, his son “Hindley” (Hugh Williams) inherits, treating “Heathcliffe” as little better than a servant before he eventually drives him away. When he returns wealthy, many years later, he discovers “Cathy” now married to the debonair, if rather dull, Niven. What happens now is the stuff of English literature at it’s most enigmatically dramatic. Whilst the screenplay does skim over much of the detailed characterisations, and some of the sub-plot from the book, it nonetheless captures the spirit of the story in both an atmospheric and charismatic fashion – with Flora Robson at her melancholic best as the recounter of our tale. Oberon and Olivier are excellent at conveying the sense of distress and longing and the cinematography of the bleak, but liberating, Yorkshire Moors all contribute to an engrossing, really rather sad story.

Cathy, Cathy, come in, Cathy come back to me.

Wuthering Heights is directed by William Wyler and adapted to screenplay by Charles MacArthur & Ben Hecht from the novel of the same name written by Emily Bronte. It stars Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Flora Robson. Music is scored by Alfred Newman and cinematography is by Gregg Toland.

OK, so it’s only a part of Bronte’s classic novel, and yes some liberties have been taken, but Wuthering Heights is still a wonderfully involving picture. Expertly played by the actors and directed with adroitness, it’s a haunting tale of tragedy, love and passions never to be sated. Moodily photographed by Toland, who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in the process, tale unfolds in flashback style that’s aided by retrospect narration from Robson’s wily house keeper Ellen Dean. Characters are perfectly formed as children, expanded upon into adulthood; with Olivier and Oberon coming into their own on the acting front, then the story reaches its denouement to leave the viewer flushed with emotion. All given dramatic impetus by Alfred Newman’s sweeping score.

1939 was a stellar year for classic cinema, Wuthering Heights is deservedly a part of that upper echelon number. Brilliant. 9/10

A beautifully made movie about ugly people
This is a beautifully filmed movie acted beautifully by two very beautiful leads, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier, and some very fine supporting actors, in particular Flora Robson as Ellen. (Robson would go on the next year to give my favorite interpretation of Elizabeth I in *The Sea Hawk”. She was one great actress.)

But none of this beauty disguises the fact that it is the story of two very selfish and at times even hateful young people, Cathy and Heathcliff. No matter how beautiful the cinematography – and it is often very beautiful – how romantic the music (by Alfred Newman), and how moving the often poetic dialogue, especially over Cathy’s deathbed, it was impossible, at least for me, to forget that important fact.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It’s really well made. But I could only wish the worst for Cathy and her Heathcliff. May they fall over that rock at the end and suffer all the torments they had inflicted on those around them.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director William Wyler
Writer Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht, Emily Brontë
Actors Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 8 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Mitchell BNC (uncredited)
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (11 reels), 2,780 m (Yugoslavia), 2,860 m (Netherlands)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm