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Article: `Wuthering Heights' puts hope in hearts of dreamers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 23, 1989
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`Can't you see a castle there?" Cathy (Merle Oberon) beseeches
Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) in a key scene in "Wuthering Heights,"
now being re-released to celebrate its 50th anniversary. (The film is
playing at the Fine Arts through Thursday.) "Because if you can't see
a castle there," she warns, "there is no hope for you."
The "castle" is merely poor Peniston Crag, a guff finger of
Yorkshire rock where the symbiotic childhood sweethearts flee to
escape the tyranny of Wuthering Heights' master, Cathy's sodden
brother, Hindley. But the castle that the pair conjure provides, at
least for the moment, refuge from the turmoil that rages within and
without them. Fifty years ago, movie ...