Wuthering Heights (1920 film)
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Wuthering Heights is a 1920 British
drama film
directed by A.V. Bramble
and starring Milton Rosmer
, Colette Brettel and Warwick Ward
. It is an adaptation of then novel Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by A.V. Bramble
A.V. Bramble
Albert Victor Bramble was a British actor and film director. Bramble was born in Portsmouth, England in 1887. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1913, and subsequently turned to directing and producing films...
and starring Milton Rosmer
Milton Rosmer
Milton Rosmer was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. He was born in Southport, Lancashire on 4 November 1881. He made his screen debut in the 1916 film The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and continued to act in film and television until 1956...
, Colette Brettel and Warwick Ward
Warwick Ward
Warwick Ward was an English actor and film producer. He appeared in 64 films between 1919 and 1933. He also produced 19 films between 1931 and 1958.He was born in St...
. It is an adaptation of then novel Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847. It was her only novel and written between December 1845 and July 1846. It remained unpublished until July 1847 and was not printed until December after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre...
by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
.
Cast
- Milton RosmerMilton RosmerMilton Rosmer was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. He was born in Southport, Lancashire on 4 November 1881. He made his screen debut in the 1916 film The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and continued to act in film and television until 1956...
- Heathcliff - Colette Brettel - Catherine Hareton
- Warwick WardWarwick WardWarwick Ward was an English actor and film producer. He appeared in 64 films between 1919 and 1933. He also produced 19 films between 1931 and 1958.He was born in St...
- Hindley Earnshaw - Ann TrevorAnn Trevor-Selected filmography:* Wuthering Heights * Daniel Deronda * A Tale of Two Cities * A Rogue in Love * Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn -External links:...
- Cathy - John L. AndersonJohn L. AndersonJohn Leonard Anderson . is an American professor of chemical engineering currently serving as the eighth president of Illinois Institute of Technology...
- Edgar Linton - Cecil Morton YorkCecil Morton York-Selected filmography:* Beau Brocade * The Autumn of Pride * Trapped by the Mormons * A Sister to Assist 'Er * A Gamble with Hearts * Lights of London * The Uninvited Guest...
- Earnshaw - Cyril RaymondCyril RaymondCyril William North Raymond MBE was a British character actor....
- Hareton - Dora De WintonDora De Winton-Selected filmography:* Jane Shore * Tom Jones * The House Opposite * The Chinese Puzzle * Wuthering Heights * The Manchester Man * The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP -External links:...
- Mrs Linton - Aileen Bagot - Frances Earnshaw
- Mrs. Templeton - Nelly Dean
- George TraillGeorge TraillGeorge Traill was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland.He was the Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1830 until his defeat at the 1835 general election....
- Joseph - Alfred Bennett - Reverend Shields
- Albert Brantford - Heathcliff, as a child
- Lewis Barber - Hareton, as a child