Wuthering Heights (1953 TV play)

Wuthering Heights
Radio Times cover with Yvonne Mitchell & Richard Todd
Genre	Period drama
Based on	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Written by	Nigel Kneale (adaptation)
Directed by	Rudolph Cartier
Starring	Richard Todd Yvonne Mitchell
Theme music composer	Alfred Dunning
Composer	Richard Addinsell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Rudolph Cartier
Running time	100 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC tv
Release	6 December 1953 (1953-12-06)

Wuthering Heights is a 1953 British TV production of Emily Brontë's classic 1847 novel.^[1] It was made because Richard Todd, then at the height of his film popularity, expressed interest in playing Heathcliff and the BBC arranged for an adaptation to be made.^[2]

The production was very popular, although no recordings are thought to have survived.^[3] Kneale's script was filmed in Australia in 1959.^[4]

Plot summary

Cast

• Richard Todd as Heathcliff
• Yvonne Mitchell as Cathy
• William Devlin as Lockwood
• Sydney Bromley as Joseph
• Rene Ray as Isabella (as René Ray)
• Jane Henderson as Ellen
• Robert Brown as Hindley Earnshaw
• Peter Bryant as Edgar Linton
• John Kidd as Dr. Kenneth

References

1. "Wuthering Heights". 6 December 1953. p. 14 – via BBC Genome.
2. Obituary for Richard Todd, The Telegraph accessed 18 December 2013
3. "BFI Screenonline: Wuthering Heights (1962)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
4. "Bronte classic on TV". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 11 July 1962. p. 37 Supplement: Television. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

External links

• Wuthering Heights at IMDb