Wuthering Heights is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Milton Rosmer, Colette Brettel and Warwick Ward. It is the first film adaptation made of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and was primarily filmed in and around her home village of Haworth.[1] It is not known whether the film currently survives,[2] and it is considered to be a lost film.
| Wuthering Heights | |
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| Directed by | A. V. Bramble |
| Written by | Eliot Stannard |
| Based on | Wuthering Heights 1847 novel by Emily Brontë |
| Starring | Milton Rosmer Colette Brettel Warwick Ward Ann Trevor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Ideal Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
In 2014, a film script used by director A.V. Bramble consisting of 22 pages of production notes alongside stills from the set of the cast and crew were found [3]and displayed to the public at the Bronte Parsonage Museum.[4]
Plot summary
editUnlike most later adaptation of the Bronte novel, this version includes the novel's storyline following the second generation.[5] Contemporary reviews however noted in spite of following the book closely, certain liberties are taken with the novel, and that the characters Isabella and her son Linton are omitted from the movie all together.[6]
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Reception
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A review from The Guardian writes, "It is a credit to the British film industry that the screen version of the book shown yesterday in Manchester should be so good,” and give praise to Milton Rosmer's performance, "It is violent, blustering, turbulently melodramatic: just the kind of acting that Emily Brontë would have wanted for her Heathcliff."[7]
Cast
edit- Milton Rosmer - Heathcliff
- Ann Trevor - Cathy
- Colette Brettel - Catherine
- Warwick Ward - Hindley Earnshaw
- John Lawrence Anderson - Edgar Linton
- Cecil Morton York - Mr Earnshaw
- Cyril Raymond - Hareton Earnshaw
- Dora De Winton - Mrs Linton
- Aileen Bagot - Frances Earnshaw
- Mrs. Templeton - Nelly Dean
- George Traill - Joseph
- Alfred Bennett - Reverend Shields
- Edward Thirlby - Attorney
- G. Mallalieu - Doctor
- Derrick Ronald - Heathcliff (age 5)
- Albert Brantford - Heathcliff (age 12)
- Florence Kenyon (as Twinkles Hunter) - Cathy (age 6)
- Audrey Smith - Catherine (age 7)
- Roy Lennol - Hindley Earnshaw (age 14)
- Lewis Barry-Furniss - Edgar Linton (age 15)
- Lewis Barber - Hareton Earnshaw (age 15)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Film review of Wuthering Heights – archive, 1920". 7 August 2019 – via The Guardian.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Wuthering Heights at silentera.com
- ^ "Bronte enthusiasts hail 'fantastic discovery' of Wuthering Heights film script".
- ^ "Child star's daughters view 'Wuthering Heights' film script". www.bronte.org.uk.
- ^ "Wuthering Heights (1920) - Trivia - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Wuthering Heights". Yorkshire Evening Post. 6 August 1920. p. 4.
- ^ "Wuthering Heights". The Guardian. 7 August 1920. p. 13.
External links
edit- Wuthering Heights at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- Wuthering Heights at IMDb
- Wuthering Heights at AllMovie
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