Today’s movie is a period drama with a scene
that happens on March 20. Watch this film tonight and enjoy.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Mr. Lockwood, new tenant at the
grange comes to pay his respects to his very surly landlord, Heathcliffe. When
he has to stay the night, Mr. Lockwood has a ghostly encounter. We then
flashback to 30 years earlier. Mr. Earnshaw adopts the gypsy boy Heathcliffe.
His son Hindley hates Heathcliffe, but eventually Heathcliffe and Cathy
Earnshaw become close. When Mr. Earnshaw dies Hindley and his wife return to
live at Wuthering Heights. He allows Heathcliffe to stay as a servant. One
night when Cathy and Heathcliffe spy on the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange,
Cathy is injured when the Lintons set the dogs on them. Cathy stays at the
Grange while she recuperates. When she
returns home, Cathy has assumed a more genteel air. When the Lintons come to
dine, Heathcliffe tries to improve his appearance, but after being taunted by
both Hindley and Edgar Linton, there is a fight and he is beaten. Hindley’s
wife has a son, but she dies and Hindley sinks into alcoholic depression.
Linton asks Cathy to marry him and she accepts, even though she loves
Heathcliffe, but cannot marry him because of his low social status. She thinks
she can use her new status to help Heathcliffe. He overhears this and runs
away. Five years later Heathcliffe returns, having made his fortune. Cathy
married Edgar Linton and they live at Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliffe soon
courts Edgar’s sister Isabella as a means of getting revenge. The pair
eventually elopes. Cathy gives birth to a daughter, also named Cathy and dies.
Isabella has a son Linton. Heathcliffe murders Hindley and takes charge of
Hindley’s son, Hareton. On March 20, 1800 [1:18:42 to 1:19:27] it is Cathy’s
sixteenth birthday. When Isabella dies, Edgar brings her son Linton to stay
with him, but Heathcliffe takes the boy. When Cathy goes to visit Linton,
Heathcliffe holds her captive and forces her to marry Linton. Edgar Linton
dies, followed shortly thereafter by Linton.
We have now returned to the time of Mr. Lockwood’s visit. Heathcliffe later
dies, while Cathy and Hareton plan to get married as they became close, living
together at Wuthering Heights after Linton’s death.
A good adaptation of one of the
classics of English literature. Heathcliffe is a real … well really shouldn’t
say. Beautiful innovative cinematography.
Source: Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New
York: Harper Collins, 2011. This book at page 257 gives Cathy’s birthday as
this date.
Release date : October 18, 1998
Run Time: 1 hour 52 minutes
Director:
David Skynner
Screenplay: Neil McKay, based on the novel by Emily
Brontë
Cast: Robert Cavanah
(Heathcliff ), Peter Davison (Joseph Lockwood), Orla Brady (Cathy Earnshaw),
Tom Georgeson (Joseph), Matthew Macfadyen (Hareton Earnshaw), Sarah Smart
(Catherine Linton), Kadie Savage (young Cathy Earnshaw), Ken Kitson (Mr.
Earnshaw), Flora Montgomery (Isabella Linton), Ian Shaw (Hindley Earnshaw)
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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