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- Wuthering Heights
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- (April 17, 1939)
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- As cinematerial, Wuthering Heights might seem as farfetched
- a prospect was any book yet pillaged. It is crammed with
- neurotic, 19th-Century gloom, ridden with implications of
- incest, short on action, careless of conventional morality. As
- additional drawbacks, Lawrence Oliver, entrusted with the
- crucial role of Heathcliff, boasts that he dislikes working for
- the movies and only does it for money; Ben Hecht and Charles
- MacArthur, preparing for their labors on Gunga Din, could barely
- be persuaded to leave their marathon backgammon game long enough
- to write a script. The script turned out brilliantly. Oliver's
- work as Heathcliff is a speaking tribute to the efficacy of the
- profit motive.
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