Recommended for age 8 and older. Emily Bronte's novel, saidher sister Charlotte, was "hewn in a wild workshop." William'sWyler's film was hewn in the hills of Ventura, Ca. with importedhot-house heather, but that's the magic of cinema: shot by Gregg Toland,Wuthering Heights depicts the seasonal changes on the wild moorpassionately, hauntingly. The story is frightfully romantic, its Gothicintensity preserved by Laurence Olivier, then new to the cinema from thestage, as the gypsy Heathcliff, less so by Merle Oberon as a too-demureCathy. The film was "a triumph of romantic willfulness over pettyrealities" (Andrew Sarris)-realities like the entire second half ofthe novel, which was dispensed with to make this literate screenplaywork.