Wuthering Heights 

Dir. William Wyler. 1939, 104 mins. U.S. DCP. With Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp. The dark landscape of the English moors comes to vivid life in the classic, rapturously shot black-and-white Hollywood adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel. Oberon is magnetic as Cathy, who loves eternally the mysterious Heathcliff (Olivier), hired by her well-to-do family as a servant. The film is today marked by the irony of casting Oberon, who hid her mixed-race status in real life, as the white Cathy, and the white Olivier as a character Brontë wrote as mixed-race. Such facts may deepen the tragic, star-crossed romance of the film, which the great William Wyler directed with evocative, romantic sweep, employing ace work from legendary craftsmen such as cinematographer Gregg Toland and composer Alfred Newman. 

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

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