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Wuthering Heights (1920 film)

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Wuthering Heights
Theatrical release poster
Directed byA. V. Bramble
Written byEliot Stannard
Based onWuthering Heights
1847 novel
by Emily Brontë
StarringMilton Rosmer
Colette Brettel
Warwick Ward
Ann Trevor
Production
company
Distributed byIdeal Film Company
Release date
  • 1920 (1920)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Wuthering Heights is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Milton Rosmer, Colette Brettel and Warwick Ward. It is the first film adaptation made of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and was primarily filmed in and around her home village of Haworth.[1] It is not known whether the film currently survives,[2] and it is considered to be a lost film.

In 2014, a film script used by director A.V. Bramble consisting of 22 pages of production notes alongside stills from the set of the cast and crew were found [3] and displayed to the public at the Bronte Parsonage Museum.[4]

Plot summary

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Unlike most later adaptation of the Bronte novel, this version includes the novel's storyline following the second generation.[5] Contemporary reviews however noted in spite of following the book closely, certain liberties are taken with the novel, and that the characters Isabella and her son Linton are omitted from the movie all together.[6]

Reception

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Newspaper clipping about the film, May 17, 1920

A review from The Guardian writes, "It is a credit to the British film industry that the screen version of the book shown yesterday in Manchester should be so good,” and give praise to Milton Rosmer's performance, "It is violent, blustering, turbulently melodramatic: just the kind of acting that Emily Brontë would have wanted for her Heathcliff."[7]

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Film review of Wuthering Heights – archive, 1920". 7 August 2019 – via The Guardian.
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Wuthering Heights at silentera.com
  3. ^ "Bronte enthusiasts hail 'fantastic discovery' of Wuthering Heights film script".
  4. ^ "Child star's daughters view 'Wuthering Heights' film script". www.bronte.org.uk.
  5. ^ "Wuthering Heights (1920) - Trivia - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
  6. ^ "Wuthering Heights". Yorkshire Evening Post. 6 August 1920. p. 4.
  7. ^ "Wuthering Heights". The Guardian. 7 August 1920. p. 13.
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