Wuthering Heights (1920 film)

Wuthering Heights
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	A. V. Bramble
Written by	Eliot Stannard
Based on	Wuthering Heights 1847 novel by Emily Brontë
Starring	Milton Rosmer Colette Brettel Warwick Ward Ann Trevor
Production company	Ideal Film Company
Distributed by	Ideal Film Company
Release date	1920 (1920)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Wuthering Heights is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Milton Rosmer, Colette Brettel and Warwick Ward. It is the first film adaptation made of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and was primarily filmed in and around her home village of Haworth. It is not known whether the film currently survives,^[1] and it is considered to be a lost film.

Plot summary

Cast

• Milton Rosmer - Heathcliff
• Ann Trevor - Cathy
• Colette Brettel - Catherine
• Warwick Ward - Hindley Earnshaw
• John Lawrence Anderson - Edgar Linton
• Cecil Morton York - Mr Earnshaw
• Cyril Raymond - Hareton Earnshaw
• Dora De Winton - Mrs Linton
• Aileen Bagot - Frances Earnshaw
• Mrs. Templeton - Nelly Dean
• 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

• Wuthering Heights at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
• Wuthering Heights at IMDb 
• Wuthering Heights at AllMovie

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