Wuthering Heights (1939 Film) - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• The Mitchell Camera Corporation selected cinematographer Gregg Toland and Wuthering Heights to be the first to use their new Mitchell BNC camera. This camera model would become the studio standard.

• Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks and Robert Newton were considered for the role of Heathcliff.

• The novel takes place in the late 18th and early 19th century. However, the film places the action in the mid-19th century, around the time of the novel's publication. Sarah Berry writes that Samuel Goldwyn deliberately chose to do this because he thought "Civil War" fashions were more attractive than Regency fashions. Other writers have claimed that Goldwyn was short on funds and had to recycle costumes from a Civil War drama.

• The film is rated G in New Zealand.