''Wuthering Heights'' is a 1920 British silent
drama film
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directed by
A. V. Bramble
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Filmogra ...
and starring
Milton Rosmer
Milton Rosmer (4 November 1881 – 7 December 1971) was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. He made his screen debut in '' The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' (1915) and continued to act in theatre, film and television until 1956. I ...
,
Colette Brettel
Colette Brettel (1902–1973) was a British stage and film actress. Born Dorothy Nicolette Pettigrew in London, she made her screen debut in the 1920 film ''Wuthering Heights'' and appeared in several British films of the early 1920s including '' ...
and
Warwick Ward
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. It is the first film adaptation made of the 1847 novel ''
Wuthering Heights
''Wuthering Heights'' is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent re ...
'' by
Emily Brontë, and was primarily filmed in and around her home village of
Haworth
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. It is not known whether the film currently survives,
Progressive Silent Film List: ''Wuthering Heights''
at silentera.com and it is considered to be a lost film
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Plot summary
Cast
* Milton Rosmer
Milton Rosmer (4 November 1881 – 7 December 1971) was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. He made his screen debut in '' The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' (1915) and continued to act in theatre, film and television until 1956. I ...
- Heathcliff
* Ann Trevor
Ann Trevor (1899–1970) was a British actress. Her stage work included the original production of Noël Coward's '' Hay Fever'' at London's Ambassadors Theatre, in 1925.
Selected filmography
* ''Wuthering Heights'' (1920)
* ''Build Thy House' ...
- Cathy
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* Colette Brettel
Colette Brettel (1902–1973) was a British stage and film actress. Born Dorothy Nicolette Pettigrew in London, she made her screen debut in the 1920 film ''Wuthering Heights'' and appeared in several British films of the early 1920s including '' ...
- Catherine
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* Warwick Ward
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- Hindley Earnshaw
Hindley Earnshaw is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel ''Wuthering Heights''. Hindley is the brother of Catherine Earnshaw, father of Hareton Earnshaw, and the foster brother and sworn enemy of Heathcliff. He descends into a ...
* John Lawrence Anderson - Edgar Linton
Edgar Linton is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel ''Wuthering Heights''. His role in the story is that of Catherine Earnshaw's husband. He resides at Thrushcross Grange and falls prey to Heathcliff's schemes for revenge agai ...
* Cecil Morton York - Mr Earnshaw
* Cyril Raymond
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- Hareton Earnshaw
Hareton Earnshaw is a character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel ''Wuthering Heights''. He is the son of Hindley Earnshaw and Hindley's wife, Frances. At the end of the novel, he makes plans to wed Catherine Linton, with whom he falls in love.
S ...
* Dora De Winton - Mrs Linton
* Aileen Bagot - Frances Earnshaw
''Wuthering Heights'' is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent ...
* Mrs. Templeton - Nelly Dean
Ellen "Nelly" Dean is a female character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel ''Wuthering Heights.'' She is the main narrator in the book, and she provides eyewitness accounts of many of the story's central events to Mr Lockwood.
Ellen Dean is called ...
* George Traill - Joseph
* Alfred Bennett - Reverend Shields
* Edward Thirlby - Attorney
* G. Mallalieu - Doctor
* Derrick Ronald - Heathcliff (age 5)
* Albert Brantford - Heathcliff (age 12)
* Florence Kenyon (as Twinkles Hunter) - Cathy (age 6)
* Audrey Smith - Catherine (age 7)
* Roy Lennol - Hindley Earnshaw (age 14)
* Lewis Barry-Furniss - Edgar Linton (age 15)
* Lewis Barber - Hareton Earnshaw (age 15)
See also
* List of lost films
References
External links
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1920 films
1920s historical drama films
British historical drama films
1920s English-language films
Films directed by A. V. Bramble
Films based on Wuthering Heights
Ideal Film Company films
Films set in Yorkshire
British silent feature films
British black-and-white films
1920 drama films
Lost British films
1920s British films
Silent drama films
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