STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

” WUTHE RI NG lIEIG HTS.” The outstanding picture. "Wuthering Heights,’’ will be shown tonight. In Samuel Goldwyn’s "Wuthering Heights,” based on the unforgettable love story of the Emily Bronte novel of the same name. Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier are cast as the romantic lovers who discover the beauty and despair of love as they wander wildly over the desolate moors of the Yorkshire country. The stars are brilliantly supported by a cast of outstanding players including David Niven, Flora Robson, Hugh Williams. Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp and Miles Mander. "Wuthering Heights" was pieturised from a masterly screenplay written by two of Hollywood’s leading scenarists. Ben Hecht, and Charles MacArthur. The picture was photographed by Gregg Toland, whose dramatic lighting and outdoor cinematography give "Wuthering Heights’’ a background of brooding, sinister mood which is in keeping with its stirring tale of love and hate. Briefly, the story concerns the lives of five strangely assorted people. Its: mood is one of great love and great' disaster, played out in an atmosphere' of strange emotions, strange hates, 1 strange moods. Meric Oberon is magnificently cast as Cathy, a high-spirited beauty whose life is mysteriously influenced by the moors on which she has lived all her life. Laurence Olivier plays the rule of HeathclifT. a brooding, melancholy figure in love with Cathy, with remarkable strength and poignant fervor. David Niven, as! Edgar Linton, turns in a portrait of unusual fidelity and conviction, and Flora Robson, known as England’s greatest character actress, is perfectly cast as Cathy's nurse.