Word: heathcliff
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Imagine a 1970s Heathcliff sitting in the study of Wuthering Heights, dressed in a country gentleman's tweeds. He has spent the morning keeping tab on his prosperous estate. Now, while his beautiful young wife and chil dren await him for 5 o'clock tea, he neatly taps on an electric typewriter his dark history of humiliation, vengeance and- since he is a Catholic convert-reform...
...Scott was too busy learning his craft to read the required books, so he spent class time "chatting it up with the young ladies about Les Miserables." One of his students at the time was Tammy Grimes, who remembers him as being "very handsome, strange and moody, like a Heathcliff. He was in practically every play we ever did, and we used to do one every three weeks...
...When I appeared in the earlier version of Wuthering Heights, Laurence Olivier's Heathcliff rejected me, and my heart was broken. Now, thanks to the photograph TIME ran with its review of the new Wuthering Heights [March 1], my heart is mended. You show Geraldine Fitzgerald's Isabella with Olivier, not Merle Oberon's Cathy, as you identified her in your caption...
...first sound version of Wuthering Heights was filmed in 1939, that wail seemed to echo back to the grave of Emily Brontë herself. The latest remake seems to echo back to 1939. The comparison is seldom flattering. In the earlier film Laurence Olivier constructed the role of Heathcliff like a man building a castle. Timothy Dalton, who played the foppish Prince Rupert in Cromwell, now seems less landlord than tenant. He self-consciously melts and struts, breathing hard to signify passion, curling his lip to show contempt...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...