Which 1939 film was based on Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights?

The 1939 film based on Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights is Wuthering Heights (1939 film).

Directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, the romantic period drama stars Merle Oberon as Cathy Earnshaw and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff, with David Niven as Edgar Linton. It adapts Brontë’s 1847 novel about destructive love, social divisions, revenge and the Yorkshire moors.

The movie is not a complete screen translation of the book. It covers only the novel’s first generation and omits the later storyline involving the younger Catherine, Linton Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw. The film also reshapes the ending, including a romantic supernatural image of Cathy and Heathcliff that is not presented in the same way in the novel.

The title can be confused with other literary adaptations from the same era, such as Rebecca, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. Those films draw on different novels by Daphne du Maurier, Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë.