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* VictorianNovelDisease: The doctor basically shrugs when asked what is wrong with Catherine, saying that she's got a lung disease but, really, "a will to die." And so Catherine does die, as she explicitly wants to. This is a change from the novel where Catherine dies in childbirth.
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* VictorianNovelDisease: The doctor basically shrugs when asked what is wrong with Catherine, saying that she's got a lung disease but, really, [[DeathByDespair "a will to die." "]] And so Catherine does die, as she explicitly wants to. This is a change from the novel where Catherine dies in childbirth. It does seem to [[ShoutOut allude to]] the real-life death of Creator/EmilyBronte, though: the doctor's reference to her "inflammation of the lungs" is the exact same phrase Creator/CharlotteBronte used to describe Emily's illness before they realized it was [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]], and a persistent myth about Emily is that she willed her own death after the loss of her brother Branwell.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Well sure Cathy is going to go for dark, mysterious Heathcliff instead of handsome, pleasant, adoring Edgar. Isn't that always how it goes?
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Well sure Cathy is going to go for dark, mysterious Heathcliff instead of handsome, pleasant, adoring Edgar. Isn't that always how it goes?goes? Isabella wants him too, unfortunately for her.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In this movie Cathy dies of VictorianNovelDisease, while in the actual Victorian novel, she dies in childbirth.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** In this movie Cathy dies of VictorianNovelDisease, while in the actual Victorian novel, she dies inchildbirth.childbirth.
** In the novel, Nelly finds Heathcliff dead on his bed after he spends several days behaving strangely and refusing to eat or sleep. In the movie, he runs out into a blizzard in search of Cathy's ghost, and soon afterward Dr. Kenneth finds him dead in the snow.
** In this movie Cathy dies of VictorianNovelDisease, while in the actual Victorian novel, she dies in
** In the novel, Nelly finds Heathcliff dead on his bed after he spends several days behaving strangely and refusing to eat or sleep. In the movie, he runs out into a blizzard in search of Cathy's ghost, and soon afterward Dr. Kenneth finds him dead in the snow.
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* ThePlace: Wuthering Heights is the house.
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Creator/LeoGCarroll plays Joseph, the servant. Music/AlfredNewman composed the store.
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* AdaptedOut: Like many adaptations, this version omits the whole second half of ''Wuthering Heights'', which deals the next generation in the persons of Hindley, Catherine, and Heathcliff's children.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Blond Edgar played by dark-haired David Niven.
* AdaptedOut: Like many adaptations, this version omits the whole second half of ''Wuthering Heights'', which deals the next generation in the persons of Hindley, Catherine, and Heathcliff's children. None appear. Mrs. Earnshaw is also omitted.
* AdaptedOut: Like many adaptations, this version omits the whole second half of ''Wuthering Heights'', which deals the next generation in the persons of Hindley, Catherine, and Heathcliff's children. None appear. Mrs. Earnshaw is also omitted.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Well sure Cathy is going to go for dark, mysterious Heathcliff instead of handsome, pleasant, adoring Edgar. Isn't that always how it goes?
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* AssholeVictim: Hindley the mean vicious {{Jerkass}} had Heathcliff's revenge coming, although nobody else did.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: Hindley's overt abusiveness and scorn, and to a lesser extend Edgar's snobbery, are what later bring the wrath of Heathcliff down upon the two of them.
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* FramingDevice: The whole story is told by Ellen the servant to Lockwood, a temporary guest at Wuthering Heights.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: The film moves the action forward from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century, because the latter period was all the rage in Hollywood films of the time (e.g. ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''). This allows Merle Oberon's Cathy to wear sumptuous hoop-skirt gowns once she becomes Lady Linton and there are ball scenes at Thrushcross Grange (no balls occur in the novel) that showcase the fashion even further.
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Rejection by Cathy turns Heathcliff mean and cruel and bent on revenge.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Edgar frantically tries to stop Isabella's romance with Heathcliff, to no avail.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: A dying Catherine asks Heathcliff to help her to the window to look once more at the moors. As they look out together she dies, as shown by her arms slipping off his shoulders.
* DiedStandingUp: Died being held up, that is, as Cathy dies in Heathcliff's arms while they both look out the window.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In this movie Cathy dies of VictorianNovelDisease, while in the actual Victorian novel, she dies in childbirth.
* DiedStandingUp: Died being held up, that is, as Cathy dies in Heathcliff's arms while they both look out the window.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In this movie Cathy dies of VictorianNovelDisease, while in the actual Victorian novel, she dies in childbirth.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the novel, Isabella leaves Heathcliff and then dies. In this film she is still alive when Heathcliff kicks it at the end.
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* TogetherInDeath: Catherine and Heathcliff spend the afterlife together.
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* OhCrap: Edgar gets a look of horror on his face when Cathy's violent reaction to Isabella running away with Heathcliff makes Edgar realize that he is the FalseRomanticLead in this story.
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* OhCrap: Edgar gets a look of horror on his face when Cathy's violent reaction to Isabella running away with Heathcliff makes Edgar realize that he is the FalseRomanticLead RomanticFalseLead in this story.story.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Cathy and Heathcliff, both ghosts, walking off towards the crag.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Cathy and Heathcliff, both ghosts, walking off towards the crag.
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* SignificantWardrobeChange: Isabella is always clad in fancy white gowns before her marriage to Heathcliff. After that extremely unfortunate coupling, she's seen dressed in black.
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* VictorianNovelDisease: The doctor basically shrugs when asked what is wrong with Catherine, saying that she's got a lung disease but, really, "a will to die." And so Catherine does die, as she explicitly wants to. This is a change from the novel where Catherine dies in childbirth.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Heathcliff and Cathy do this a lot. Cathy says "He should have known I love him, I love him, I love him!", after finding out too late that Heathcliff has ridden away.
* GhostReunionEnding: Ends with the ghosts of Heathcliff and Catherine, together at last, walking off towards Peniston Crag.
* LongingLook: Isabella invites Heathcliff to the Lintons' fancy party, but all he can do is stare at Cathy. Soon after he begs her to go away with him but she refuses.
* LongingLook: Isabella invites Heathcliff to the Lintons' fancy party, but all he can do is stare at Cathy. Soon after he begs her to go away with him but she refuses.
* OhCrap: Edgar gets a look of horror on his face when Cathy's violent reaction to Isabella running away with Heathcliff makes Edgar realize that he is the FalseRomanticLead in this story.
* SayMyName: Cathy goes out into the driving rain screaming "HEATHCLIFF! HEATHCLIFF!", after Heathcliff leaves the moor for good (until his vengeful return, that is).
* SignificantWardrobeChange: Isabella is always clad in fancy white gowns before her marriage to Heathcliff. After that extremely unfortunate coupling, she's seen dressed in black.
* SignificantWardrobeChange: Isabella is always clad in fancy white gowns before her marriage to Heathcliff. After that extremely unfortunate coupling, she's seen dressed in black.
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* TimeSkip: Ten years or so from teenaged Hindley inheriting the house and banishing Heathcliff to the stables, to all three characters as adults.
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* TimeSkip: Ten years or so from teenaged Hindley inheriting the house and banishing Heathcliff to the stables, to all three characters as adults.adults.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Hindley pulls a gun on Heathcliff, but Heathcliff diagnoses him correctly as a cowardly weakling who won't pull the trigger.
--> '''Heathcliff''': Shoot, you pulling chicken of a man with not enough blood in you to keep your hand steady!
* YouWouldntShootMe: Hindley pulls a gun on Heathcliff, but Heathcliff diagnoses him correctly as a cowardly weakling who won't pull the trigger.
--> '''Heathcliff''': Shoot, you pulling chicken of a man with not enough blood in you to keep your hand steady!
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''Wuthering Heights'' is a 1939 film directed by Creator/WilliamWyler.
It is, of course, an adaptation of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' by Creator/EmilyBronte. Mr. Earnshaw, owner of a Yorkshire estate called Wuthering Heights, brings home a child named Heathcliff, a homeless urchin he found in Liverpool. His daughter Cathy takes an immediate shine to Heathcliff and they become friends, but Cathy's arrogant brother Hindley hates Heathcliff and abuses him terribly. After Mr. Earnshaw dies and teenaged Hindley becomes master of the house, he kicks Heathcliff out of the main house, banishing him to the stables as a servant.
Cut forward a decade or so. Adult Heathcliff (Creator/LaurenceOlivier) still labors as a stable boy for the Earnshaws. He and adult Cathy (Merle Oberon) have fallen in love, but Cathy, who has become accustomed to a life of pampered wealth, declines to run away with Heathcliff. Meanwhile, Hindley, now an alcoholic wastrel, still hates and abuses Heathcliff. When neighbor Edgar Linton (Creator/DavidNiven) starts paying romantic attention to Cathy, Heathcliff leaves the moors, vowing revenge. Edgar and Catherine marry. Many years later, Heathcliff comes back to Yorkshire, bent on revenge--a revenge that eventually involves Edgar Linton's sister Isabella.
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* AdaptedOut: Like many adaptations, this version omits the whole second half of ''Wuthering Heights'', which deals the next generation in the persons of Hindley, Catherine, and Heathcliff's children.
* TheAlcoholic: Hindley becomes a drunkard. He's wobbling on his feet in the scene where Ellen comes back to tell him that Cathy is lost on the moors. Hindley's drinking and gambling allows Heathcliff to buy Wuthering Heights out from under him; Heathcliff makes sure that Hindley is still supplied with wine to speed his descent into oblivion.
* AngryGuardDog: The angry guard dogs at the Linton mansion bite Cathy's ankle, introducing her to Edgar while causing Heathcliff to leave to make his fortune.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Dark, shadowing lighting sets the mood at Wuthering Heights in the FramingDevice, as Lockwood is shown to his room, only to encounter a ghost at the window.
* GetOut: What Cathy says to Edgar when throwing him out of the house after Edgar insults Heathcliff.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Cathy does this a lot to Heathcliff before they go away. She vows her love to Heathcliff when they're out on the crag together. But when she returns to Wuthering Heights after her recuperation at the Linton house she is cold to Heathcliff and insults him. Later she meets Heathcliff at the crag, apologizes, and embraces him again. Then she insults Heathcliff ''again'' after Edgar pays a visit, which is what finally leads him to leave to make his fortune.
--> '''Cathy''': Well, my moods change indoors.
* AMinorKidroduction: The opening scenes show Heathcliff, Cathy, and Hindley as children, with Heathcliff and Cathy becoming best friends while Heathcliff and Hindley hate each other.
* NoodleIncident: As with the novel, no explanation is given for how Heathcliff the penniless stableboy turned himself into a wealthy man.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Lockwood not only hears the ghost of Catherine but touches her hand. Ellen says that it's not Cathy's ghost but her love. The final scene, which Sam Goldwyn forced director William Wyler to film, shows the ghosts of Heathcliff and Cathy walking back to Peniston Crag.
* SpitefulSpit: Heathcliff spits at Judge Linton's feet while vowing revenge.
* TimeSkip: Ten years or so from teenaged Hindley inheriting the house and banishing Heathcliff to the stables, to all three characters as adults.
It is, of course, an adaptation of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' by Creator/EmilyBronte. Mr. Earnshaw, owner of a Yorkshire estate called Wuthering Heights, brings home a child named Heathcliff, a homeless urchin he found in Liverpool. His daughter Cathy takes an immediate shine to Heathcliff and they become friends, but Cathy's arrogant brother Hindley hates Heathcliff and abuses him terribly. After Mr. Earnshaw dies and teenaged Hindley becomes master of the house, he kicks Heathcliff out of the main house, banishing him to the stables as a servant.
Cut forward a decade or so. Adult Heathcliff (Creator/LaurenceOlivier) still labors as a stable boy for the Earnshaws. He and adult Cathy (Merle Oberon) have fallen in love, but Cathy, who has become accustomed to a life of pampered wealth, declines to run away with Heathcliff. Meanwhile, Hindley, now an alcoholic wastrel, still hates and abuses Heathcliff. When neighbor Edgar Linton (Creator/DavidNiven) starts paying romantic attention to Cathy, Heathcliff leaves the moors, vowing revenge. Edgar and Catherine marry. Many years later, Heathcliff comes back to Yorkshire, bent on revenge--a revenge that eventually involves Edgar Linton's sister Isabella.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptedOut: Like many adaptations, this version omits the whole second half of ''Wuthering Heights'', which deals the next generation in the persons of Hindley, Catherine, and Heathcliff's children.
* TheAlcoholic: Hindley becomes a drunkard. He's wobbling on his feet in the scene where Ellen comes back to tell him that Cathy is lost on the moors. Hindley's drinking and gambling allows Heathcliff to buy Wuthering Heights out from under him; Heathcliff makes sure that Hindley is still supplied with wine to speed his descent into oblivion.
* AngryGuardDog: The angry guard dogs at the Linton mansion bite Cathy's ankle, introducing her to Edgar while causing Heathcliff to leave to make his fortune.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Dark, shadowing lighting sets the mood at Wuthering Heights in the FramingDevice, as Lockwood is shown to his room, only to encounter a ghost at the window.
* GetOut: What Cathy says to Edgar when throwing him out of the house after Edgar insults Heathcliff.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Cathy does this a lot to Heathcliff before they go away. She vows her love to Heathcliff when they're out on the crag together. But when she returns to Wuthering Heights after her recuperation at the Linton house she is cold to Heathcliff and insults him. Later she meets Heathcliff at the crag, apologizes, and embraces him again. Then she insults Heathcliff ''again'' after Edgar pays a visit, which is what finally leads him to leave to make his fortune.
--> '''Cathy''': Well, my moods change indoors.
* AMinorKidroduction: The opening scenes show Heathcliff, Cathy, and Hindley as children, with Heathcliff and Cathy becoming best friends while Heathcliff and Hindley hate each other.
* NoodleIncident: As with the novel, no explanation is given for how Heathcliff the penniless stableboy turned himself into a wealthy man.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Lockwood not only hears the ghost of Catherine but touches her hand. Ellen says that it's not Cathy's ghost but her love. The final scene, which Sam Goldwyn forced director William Wyler to film, shows the ghosts of Heathcliff and Cathy walking back to Peniston Crag.
* SpitefulSpit: Heathcliff spits at Judge Linton's feet while vowing revenge.
* TimeSkip: Ten years or so from teenaged Hindley inheriting the house and banishing Heathcliff to the stables, to all three characters as adults.
