Wuthering Heights

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Wuthering Heights, 1939.

TCM fan Brenda Rogers joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following Wuthering Heights, 1939.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Wuthering Heights, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Wuthering Heights, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Wuthering Heights, 1939.

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Socially mismatched lovers Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and Cathy (Merle Oberon) first eavesdrop, then by accident intervene on the Linton's formal party, inducing grave insult, David Niven as worried Edgar, in a key scene from William Wyler's Wuthering Heights, 1939.

Beginning the stormy prologue from Samuel Goldwyn's celebrated 1939 production of Wuthering Heights, Miles Mander as the visitor Lockwood, Laurence Olivier the taciturn Heathcliff, other characters rather obscured, from the Emily Bronte novel, directed by William Wyler.

Unaware that socially inferior Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) is within earshot, Cathy (Merle Oberon) tells servant Ellen (Flora Robson) first of her engagement, then her doubts, in Wuthering Heights, 1939, directed by William Wyler from the Emily Bronte novel.

Returned from America, making an obscured reference to their childhood romance, Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) tells Cathy (Merle Oberon), her husband Edgar (David Niven) and his sister Isabella (Geraldine Fitzgerald) he's home to stay, in Wuthering Heights, 1939, the Samuel Goldwyn production directed by William Wyler, from the Emily Bronte novel.

Recovering from being clobbered by her brother, the orphaned quasi-servant boy Heathcliff (Rex Downing) exchanges promises on the moors with young Cathy (Sarita Wooten) in William Wyler's Wuthering Heights, 1939.

Exercising further cruelty on infatuated Isabella (Geraldine Fitzgerald), whom he courts out of spite, Heathcliff (Laurence) refuses to dance, then escapes with true love Cathy (Merle Oberon) for constrained passion on the terrace in William Wyler's Wuthering Heights, 1939.

Cathy (Merle Oberon) visits Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) who defends his intention to marry her sister-in-law, from Samuel Goldwyn's production, from Emily Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights, 1939, directed by William Wyler.