"Wuthering Heights” Bronte Film Finished

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20785, 21 April 1939, Page 4

"Wuthering Heights ” Bronte Film Finished

The few scenes of “Wuthering Heights” which remained to be shot have now been completed, and the picture is in the cutting rooms. So complicated is the story and so large the cast and the number of different scenes that editing'will, however, be a long job, and it will be several months before the picture is ready to be publicly shown over here. Determined to adhere strictly to historical detail. Sam Goldwyn’s research experts found themselves in a bit of a dilemma during production. Popular in Emily Bronte's period were sucli things as cock-fighting, which, a hundred years ago, was a common sport with wealthy gentlemen' and most country folk in Britain. Tastes to-day have changed and, aside from the fact that all cock-fighting scenes would be forbidden by the Hays ufiiee, it was thought that they would get a hostile reception at the hands of modern | lilmgoers. They were omitted. The same, too, with a scene of a man knitting, it was actually filmed, but, after a noisy reception when the rushes were shown, it also was left out. in the grounds of the Lyntons’ estate. Emily Bronte tolls of some peacocks. There are plenty of peafcocks iii America—they are r-.tid to have originated there—but the British breed is slightly different. Eventually, six j peacocks of the correct variety were discovered in j private zoo. They cost the studio £i apiece per day to hire, in addition to which they had to have i special i at £25 a day.