Wuthering Heights

Last April I put up 3 TV adaptations of Jane Eyre so I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up doing the same for Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights has been put to film many times, as far back as a silent version in 1920. A talkie film appeared in 1939 and the first of many TV adaptations in 1948. The BBC followed with more versions in 1962 and 1968. Another film was released in 1970 and in 1992 one was released that many feel is the best.

Here we have the 1978 BBC production that ran for 5¼ hours, so I'm assuming later versions are quite condensed for the short attention span crowd.

In 1998 London Weekend and PBS Masterpiece Theatre broadcast another version and 11 years later WGBH-Boston co-produced yet another with ITV Wales.

From what I've read there is currently another production in progress to be released next year.

That's a lot of film for an old 1847 novel.

I found this tongue-in-cheek review online and found it amusing and thought I'd share it. It's not about any of these film productions but about the story itself:

Wuthering Heights is a story for a world before psychotherapy. Today, Heathcliff would have been diagnosed as a sociopath and Cathy would probably have gone for self-help at a workshop for codependents; and if their therapy had worked, they might have ended up in the suburbs with 2.5 kids and a Camry in the driveway. Which would have made a bit of a mess of the storyline really, so thank the good lords of literature that Emily Brontë wasn't whipping up the plot in these self-actuated times!

1978: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077106/
1998: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204744/
2009: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1238834/