| Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Radio Times cover with Yvonne Mitchell & Richard Todd | |
| Genre | Period drama |
| Based on | Wuthering Heights byEmily 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 ofEmily Brontë's classic1847 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] Todd wrote in his memoirs that he was approached to make it by Michael Barry and Rudolph Cartier. He was making a French filmThe Bed at the time. Todd said the production was "to break new ground: far from being static with few camera angles, we had over 70 different set-ups to contend with and several cameras to shoot them."[3]
The production was very popular, although no recordings are thought to have survived.[4] Kneale's script was remade on television inAustralia in 1959.[5]
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