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Wuthering Heights
(April 17, 1939)
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.