This is an adaptation ... but only of half the book!

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Absurd or not, I just copied the American version on my TiVo and it runs 104 minutes.

I understand the 1939 version covers only 23 chapters of the book. I assume this one does as well. So what? It's an excellent movie.

It's 104 minutes. The plot has been cut short on purpose. They changed some important aspects of the novel: at Heathcliff's return to the Heights, he finds Hindley's son is dead (in the novel Hareton outlives his father and Heathcliff himself and marries the younger Chatherine), in the film Heathcliff dies when shot at by Hindley (in the novel Hindley misses his target and Heathcliff of course makes him pay for trying to kill him afterwards when Hindley is drunk), etc

The adverts for the film stated that they wanted to highlight the novel's true spirit but at the same time they tried to make the book attractive to young audiences.

They did edit the film horribly. A few key scenes were left out, and the final scene, with a wounded Heathcliff dragging himself up to the Crags, lasted much longer. In an interview given a few months afterwards, Timothy Dalton says they cut out about 30 minutes of film:

"In one sense, 'Wuthering Heights' was put down by the critics quite justifiably. But I'd like to get the record straight on two points. Firstly, Anna Calder Marshall and I were damned for playing Catherine and Heathcliff as being too young. But Catherine died at the age of nineteen in the novel. The first part of the book covers them as teenagers. It's in the second part, after her death, that Heathcliff grows into this towering, awful man. We based the relationships on a physical toughness which is there in the language and landscape of the book. It's a savage, analytical book. Now just at this time 'Love Story' came out. The producers decided that this is were the money was - and they cut 30 minutes, key scenes of the film. All the "nicer" scenes were left in. We filmed an ending of total despair - Heathcliff collapsing on the moors haunted by Catherine's ghost. Three months later, the producers went off and filmed two extras running down a hill hand in hand as ghosts living happily ever after. But those producers could never understand that the greatest romance is the HARDEST romance - the one that goes through the trials and bad times, and ends up as some kind of torture. That's what the great poets have always talked about."

Taken from Timothy Dalton's authorized site: www.timothydalton.com/rwuther.html

"To live, for me, is to stand on a crater crust that may crack and spue fire any day"

I don't think a version truly faithful to the book has ever been made, but in my opinion, the characterizations of Cathy and Heathcliff in this version were very authentic.