~ Wuthering Heights (1939) ~ It is only the Greatest romance ever filmed of all time. Whats the story? In the 1800s English countryside, a traveler caught in a furious snowstorm is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, a mansion full of unhappy souls presided over by unfriendly Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier). When the visitor glimpses a phantom woman outside his window in the blizzard, an old maid tells the story of passion and unforgiving loss that has left Wuthering Heights haunted, quite literally, by obsessive love. Heathcliff was a homeless gypsy boy who was adopted by the kindly lord of Wuthering Heights to be raised alongside his own children, Cathy (Merle Oberon) and Hindley (Hugh Williams). Cathy grows to love Heathcliff, but Hindley, jealous and snotty, hates the adoptive sibling. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley inherits the estate and treats Heathcliff like a peasant-servant. Promising Heathcliff shell be his always, Cathy goes off to school, only to return to Wuthering Heights with a fiance from her own elevated social class, snobbish Edgar Linton (David Niven). When she denounces Heathcliff as unworthy, he runs away to America, amasses a fortune, gives himself a makeover as a dashing gentleman, and returns with a vengeance to take over Wuthering Heights and enact a cruel strategy to pay back Cathy for his broken heart. youtube/watch?v=waYbIo3a53U angxt.wordpress/2010/02/15/on-wuthering-heights/
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