Wuthering Heights (1970) |  | Director: Robert Fuest
Actors: Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews, Pamela Brown, Judy Cornwell
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 22367
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: D1002748D
ISBN: 0792851730
UPC: 027616869463
EAN: 9780792851738
ASIN: B00005R5GB
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
Release Date: December 26, 2001
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Description
Haunting, passionate and unforgettable, this lovely, scenically rich (Newsweek) version ofEmily Brontë's timeless masterpiece stars Emmy winner Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton (Licence to Kill) as Cathy and Heathcliff, two star-crossed lovers destined for doomed romance. 'realistic [and] with authentic locations and atmosphere (Leonard Maltin), Wuthering Heights is a riveting, heartbreaking and beautifully realized telling of a classic. Inside the dark and austere farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, the impetuous Cathy first meets Heathcliffan orphan her father rescued from the streets of London. As the two grow up, they spend endless days exploring the sprawling moors of Yorkshire, eventually discovering in each other a fiery, powerful love. But when Cathy is introduced to their wealthy neighborsand promised to marry their son, her social equala fury is ignited within Heathcliff that can only be extinguished by one thing'revenge!
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 Love That Movie!! February 24, 2010
Mary Wickersham (ALLEN, TEXAS, US)
Although I have seen this movie a dozen times I didn't own a copy! I looked locally at The Movie Trading Company Stores to no avail! So, naturally Amazon came to mind and what do you know, they had a copy of the exact movie I wanted! Because it had to be the 1970 version of Wuthering Heights starring Timothy Dalton, this is an awesome movie of love, greed, betrayal, sacrifice, and undying love that goes beyond this world...See it once, you will want to see it again and again and ...........
 PATHETIC!!! Trashy Script. Stick With The 1939 Version. October 16, 2009
HAMLET
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw this film version because I like Timothy Dalton, and wanted to see what he was like pre-Mr. Rochester & James Bond. Mr. Dalton was the only saving grace in this overblown production featuring a future Bond and Indiana Jones villain (Julian Glover). I did not sense any fire from Anna Calder-Marshall as Cathy, who looked a little too old for the role. I've yet to see the 1992 film version starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Bionche. The screenplay for this version was extremely bad, with the exception of one scene:-SPOILER AHEAD!!!-When Heathcliff (Timothy Dalton) and Isabella Linton are kissing aall the way through when Herathcliff escapes on horseback. I can't remember all the liberties taken, as it's been several years since I read the novel, but I COMPLETELY HATED THE ENDING TO THIS VERSION!!! SPOILER AHEAD!!! The villainous Hindley Earnshaw shoots Heathcliff, who dies soon after. SPOILER OVER!!! Apart from the scene not being in the book, it wasn't even filmed correctly. That scene completely destroyed what Ms. Bronte intended through the novel, and which the 1939 film version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier, in his breakout role, as Heathcliff, conveyed: the torment of lost love. Not Rated, but I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS FILM VERSION. Stick with the 1939 version starring Merle Oberon & Laurence Olivier and directed by William Wyler (who also directed the Academy Award winner "Jezebel" the year before and would go on to direct "Ben-Hur," one of the greatest movies ever made)
Great Movie and wonderful acting October 12, 2009
H. Jauhar (New Zealand)
This is a really great movie for anyyone who wants a good show. Timothy Dalton makes the best Heathcliff. His acting and the look in the movie is stupendous. Can't say the same for the rest of the cast as they all seemed a little over the top but they are not too bad in their roles. How I wish this movie was longer with the rest of the chapters of the book and not finished on an embellished ending.
Finally on DVD!!!!!!!!!! September 19, 2009
dustangel2000 (Huguenot, New York United States)
I first saw Timothy Dalton in this version when it was at the Movie Theater. I purchased it on a VCR tape but couldn't wait for the DVD to come out. I also own the Merle Oberon one. But this one is an awesome version. Over the years I have seen it re-made with different actors and a remake ruins what the original story tried to say. I think this is the best version and next would be the Merle Oberon one. Timothy Dalton is amazing in his Heathcliffe role. Awesome!!!
A true Hollywood failure August 12, 2009
Rosanna Griggs (Colorado: there is only one as beautiful as this!!!))
I regard the above as the ultimate insult to an otherwise great author. She must be turning in her grave imagining what was done to her story that has so well endured through the years since its publication.
How can such alterations be stopped? It is hardly connected to the story at all -- what a waste of energy and resources. Even the actors were reduced to nullified subjects: no passion, only cheap sensationalism.
I wasted my money on this one, and so amen...
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