Wuthering Heights (1953)
1h 40m
Running Time
December 6, 1953Release Date

Wuthering Heights (1953)
1h 40m
Running Time
December 6, 1953Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
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Cast & Crew.

Richard Todd
Heathcliff

Yvonne Mitchell
Cathy

William Devlin
Lockwood

Sydney Bromley
Joseph

Rène Ray
Isabella

Jane Henderson
Ellen

Robert Brown
Hindley Earnshaw

Peter Bryant
Edgar Linton

John Kidd
Dr. Kenneth

Rudolph Cartier
Director / Producer

Alfred Dunning
Music

Emily Brontë
Novel

Nigel Kneale
Adaptation

Richard Addinsell
Music

Barry Learoyd
Settings
Details.
Wiki.
Wuthering Heights is a 1953 British TV production of Emily Brontë's classic 1847 novel. It was made because Richard Todd, then at the height of his film popularity, expressed interest in playing Heathcliff and the BBC arranged for an adaptation to be made. Todd wrote in his memoirs that he was approached to make it by Michael Barry and Rudolph Cartier. He was making a French film The Bed at the time. Todd said the production was "to break new ground: far from being static with few camera angles, we had over 70 different set-ups to contend with and several cameras to shoot them."
The production was very popular, although no recordings are thought to have survived. Kneale's script was remade on television in Australia in 1959.