I always wondered why she was so mean to him and dumped him for the rich older guy. Perhaps she knew he was better than just being a stable boy and wanted him to get out and find a better life?
What a wonderful, awesome love story of all time id like to buy the book someday to understand the whole synopsis of this marvelous novel thanks for uploading it in the you tube 😮😅😊❤
I read the book as a youngster, 4 me it's the best love story ever told. I've seen it at least 10 times, but probably more i find it hopeful & uplifting! LOVE NEVER DIES!
Just re-read the book, which was truly captivating. This film captures the book's dark essence for the most part. I'd love a truly faithful (to the book) series to be made, missing nothing of the book. One of the classics that will be read for as long as we exist, as there's so much timeless quality to it. Remarkable film adapted from a remarkable book.
Once a person understands real love that surpasses all understanding and that true love is only found in Jesus, then this type of movie and novel is just that, a story that makes little sense. Maybe the novel is better than this movie. One thing I know is the dead enough go to heaven or Hell. They do not walk the Earth!
I saw this with my mother when I was 8 years old. When it was over I cried hot tears for a very long time as my mom stroked my hair to soothe me: "There, there, Cathy...God love you..."
I have neither read the book nor seen the film before. However some things don't make sense. Heathcliffe can read, and underneath the filth and tattered clothes he was a rather posh little boy. I think Cathy was right. He was of gentle birth. He must have run away from school and met with some dreadful misadventure. Perhaps running into Oliver and the Artful Dodger.
Cathy's father gave young Heathcliff an education. I believe Cathy said he was born of some "noble birth". I think he looked "posh" bc he was a very handsome child with gorgeous black hair,, dark expressive eyes
Emily Bronte gifted us with this wonderful story and this movie does a marvelous job of telling the story. No matter how many times the story is told it leaves one with feeling of sadness and a wish that it could all been different.
It has been an age since I saw this movie - so very beautiful (and I had forgotten just how good Merle Oberon was - really much better than I remembered). This black and white Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are just sublime. Thank you.
Gerladine Fitzgerald is a superb actress. See her many years later in "The Pawnbroker" with Rod Steiger, and in the not-so-well-known "Rachel Rachel" directed by Paul Newman and starring Joanne Woodward. Ms. Fitzgerald's scene as an over-the-top charismatic evangelist is very brief but intense. Great actors make great impressions in very little time in films.
She also gives a memorable performance in a one-time guest role on ‘The Golden Girls’ as a suicidal woman who the main characters convince to give life another try.
When Heathcliffe returns after making his fortune in America - possibly as a slave owner according to some theories - his chilling manner and expressions are beyond cold and contemptuous, but empty and dead. Incredible acting by Olivier.
Agreed. And while I think Merle Oberon was not the number one best casting choice, she does do a great job at conveying how Heathcliff’s very presence is like a claw tearing into Cathy’s soul, especially when he returns after so long at a point when they’ve both changed and become very different people than they were before, but the almost otherworldly connection between them suddenly renders all material wealth meaningless by comparison. Merle’s silent facial expressions show all of that without her needing to say anything.
