Wuthering Heights - Re-issue Trailer 1939

William Wyler's Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontë novel. A traveler named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, where the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), sits down to tell him the story in flashback. In the early 19th century, the original owner of Wuthering Heights, Mr. Earnshaw (Leo G. Carroll), brings home an orphan from Liverpool named Heathcliff (Rex Downing). Though son Hindley Earnshaw despises the boy, daughter Catherine develops a close kinship with Heathcliff that blossoms into love. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up together on the Moors and seem destined for happiness, even though Hindley forces Heathcliff to work as a stable boy. When Cathy (Merle Oberon) meets wealthy neighbor Edgar Linton (David Niven), Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) gets jealous and leaves. Cathy marries Edgar, and Heathcliff returns with his own wealth and sophistication. He buys Wuthering Heights from the alcoholic Hindley (Hugh Williams) and marries Edgar's sister, Isabella Linton (Geraldine Fitzgerald), out of spite. Still obsessively in love with each other, Cathy gets deathly ill while Heathcliff grows into a bitter old man. Ellen continues telling Lockwood the story as Dr. Kenneth (Donald Crisp) enters and reveals the fateful ending.

Merle Oberon - Catherine Earnshaw
Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff
David Niven - Edgar Linton
Flora Robson - Ellen Dean
Geraldine Fitzgerald - Isabella Linton
Donald Crisp - Dr. Kenneth
Hugh Williams - Hindley Earnshaw
Leo G. Carroll - Joseph
Cecil Humphreys - Judge Linton
Miles Mander - Lockwood
Romaine Callender - Robert the Butler
Cecil Kellaway - Mr. Earnshaw
Rex Downing - Heathcliff (younger)
Sarita Wooton - Cathy (younger)
Douglas Scott - Hindley (younger)
Mme. Alice Ehlers - Harpsichordist
Frank Benson - Heathcliffe Servant
Vernon P. Downing - Giles
Harold Entwistle - Beadle
Helena Grant - Miss Hudkins
Sam Harris - Wedding Guest
Schuyler Standish - Little Boy
William Stelling - Dancer
Eric Wilton - Linton Servant