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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 7, 1939

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

72%

Original Title

Wuthering Heights

Production Companies

Samuel Goldwyn Productions, United Artists

Director

William Wyler

Description

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.