Wuthering heights 1992 movie cast3/31/2024 The most famous film, the characteristically polished William Wyler-Sam Goldwyn production of 1939, covers just the novel's first half and was co-scripted by Ben Hecht. ![]() ![]() So much so that only one of the several film versions of Emily's Wuthering Heights made over the past 90 years has attempted to encompass the book's 30-odd years of pain, misery and ecstasy and its three generations of man handing on misery to man in the west Yorkshire countryside. "The Brontës felt that they must do it, Ernest Hemingway could just do it," he sang, and indeed the range of social, psychological and sexual experience Emily, Charlotte and Anne explored in their novels is remarkable. I n the version of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It" that he used in his Las Vegas nightclub act in the 1950s, Noël Coward included a celebrated couplet that threw doubts on the much vaunted sexual prowess of America's most macho author while extolling the adventurousness of a 19th-century English country vicar's three daughters.
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