Wuthering Heights
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Fuest
Anna Calder-marshall
Timothy Dalton
Harry Andrews
Pamela Brown
Judy Cornwell
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Late in the 18th century, Mr. Earnshaw returns to Wuthering Heights, his manor on the Yorkshire moors, with Heathcliff, an orphan he found starving on the streets of Liverpool. Earnshaw's two children, Catherine and Hindley, are jealous of their father's affection for the boy and treat him with contempt; after Hindley is sent away to boarding school, however, Catherine and Heathcliff fall in love and steal away to the moors. Upon the death of Earnshaw, Hindley becomes master of Wuthering Heights and treats Heathcliff like a stableboy. Later, when Heathcliff discovers Catherine's plans to marry wealthy Edgar Linton from nearby Thrushcross Grange, the distraught youth runs away before hearing Catherine explain that she plans to use Edgar's money to free Heathcliff from Hindley's mistreatment. Three years later, Heathcliff, now an affluent and well-groomed man of fortune, returns and finds Catherine married to Edgar and Hindley a widowed drunkard. Plotting his revenge, Heathcliff gambles with Hindley for the ownership of Wuthering Heights and wins. Next, he courts and subsequently marries Edgar's sister, Isabella, and humiliates Edgar by treating her like a servant. When Catherine becomes gravely ill in the early stages of pregnancy, she calls for Heathcliff; a short time later, she dies in childbirth. While mourning at her grave, Heathcliff is lured back to Wuthering Heights by the ghostly figure of Catherine but is shot at the site by Hindley, who has conspired in his murder with Isabella. Although mortally wounded, Heathcliff follows the ghost of Catherine to the moors where, in death, he is reunited with his beloved.
Director
Robert Fuest
Cast
Anna Calder-marshall
Timothy Dalton
Harry Andrews
Pamela Brown
Judy Cornwell
James Cossins
Rosalie Crutchley
Hilary Dwyer
Julian Glover
Hugh Griffith
Morag Hood
Ian Ogilvy
Peter Sallis
Aubrey Woods
Wendy Allnutt
John Comer
Dudley Foster
Gordon Gostelow
Lois Daine
Keith Buckley
James Berwick
Patricia Doyle
Mark Wilding
Sandra Bryant
Bruce Beeby
Jonathan Brewster
Gillian Hayes
Libby Granger
Gertan Klauber
Crew
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Maurice Binder
Ann Chegwidden
John Coquillon
Evelyn Gibbs
Gerry Hambling
Philip Harrison
Louis M. Heyward
Leslie Hodgson
Michel Legrand
Ted Lewis
Ted Lloyd
Bill Lodge
Josie Macavin
Brian Marshall
Reginald Mills
James H. Nicholson
Maud Onslow
John Pellatt
Nolan Roberts
Patrick Tilley
Film Details
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Notes
Location scenes filmed in Yorkshire, England. Opened in London in June 1971. Previously filmed in Great Britain (1920); and in the United States (1939, United Artists).
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States December 15, 1970
Released in United States December 23, 1970
Released in USA on video.
Released in United States December 23, 1970
Released in United States December 15, 1970 (Los Angeles)
