The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1939 features the New York Film Critics Circle Best Film winner, William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights. Directed by William Wyler from a screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht and starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Hugh Williams, Wuthering Heights is the earliest surviving film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode comes from Frank S. Nugent in The New York Times, Variety (https://variety.com/1939/film/reviews/wuthering-heights-2-1200412239/), and Graham Greene in The Spectator (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/5th-may-1939/16/the-cinema).
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Tokyo Story (1953 Foreign Film)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 Josh’s Pick)
The Living Desert (1953 Documentary)
The Wages of Fear (1953 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Box Office Flop)
Fear and Desire (1953 First Feature)
The Robe (1953 Box Office Champ)
A Few Good Men (1992 Bonus Episode)
The Shining (1980 Halloween Bonus)
Idle Hands (1999 Halloween Bonus)
Death Becomes Her (1992 Halloween Bonus)
Raging Bull (1980 Bonus Episode)
1992 Epilogue
Basic Instinct (1992 Audience Choice)
Shakes The Clown (1992 Future Cult Classic)
Dead Alive (1992 Dave’s Pick)
Unforgiven (1992 Best Picture)
In The Soup (1992 Sundance Award Winner)
Peter’s Friends (1992 Jason’s Pick)
Man Bites Dog (1992 Foreign Film)
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