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'''''Wuthering Heights''''' is a 1959 Australian television play adapted from the 1847 novel ''[[Wuthering Heights]]''. It was directed by [[Alan Burke]] and based on a script by [[Nigel Kneale]]. It was made at a time when Australian drama production was rare.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref> |
'''''Wuthering Heights''''' is a 1959 Australian television play adapted from the 1847 novel ''[[Wuthering Heights]]''. It was directed by [[Alan Burke]] and based on a script by [[Nigel Kneale]] which had been [[Wuthering Heights (1953 film)|filmed by the BBC in 1953 in a TV play]] starring [[Richard Todd]]. It was made at a time when Australian drama production was rare.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=ABC Weekly|title= Wuthering Heights live on TV |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1414183972|date=28 October 1959|page=10}}</ref> |
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| Wuthering Heights | |
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| Directed by | Alan Burke |
| Written by | Nigel Kneale |
| Starring | Lew Luton Delia Williams |
Production company | ABC |
| Distributed by | ABC |
Release dates | 28 October 1959 (live, Sydney) 9 December Melbourne (recorded, Melbourne) |
Running time | 100 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Wuthering Heights is a 1959 Australian television play adapted from the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. It was directed by Alan Burke and based on a script by Nigel Kneale which had been filmed by the BBC in 1953 in a TV play starring Richard Todd. It was made at a time when Australian drama production was rare.[1][2]
Cast
- Lew Luton as Heathcliffe
- Delia Williams as Cathy
- Annette Andre as Isabella
- David Bluford
- Richard Davies
- Geoffrey King
- Hugh Stewart
- Nancye Stewart
- Lou Vernon
Production
The story was mostly filmed live, but some segments were pre-recorded around Sydney.[3] Lew Luton was a DJ and presenter of teen shows at the time.[4]
Reception
Wuthering Heights was one of three plays that Alan Burke directed that year. He said they all received "tiny ratings" and that Wuthering Heights "was too large for our television conditions, and things went wrong."[5]
The reviewer for The Age said the play was disappointing and that "the atmosphere of bleakness and howling winds was not created with realism. Noises off were much too prevalent. The casting was not up to standard. . . . Luton showed a lack of understanding on the part of both actor and producer."[6]
The TV critic for The Sydney Morning Herald thought the play was "straightforward enough in its story-telling and sufficiently wide-ranging in its techniques" but "hardly ever caught the necessary brooding Gothic spirit of the time, the place and the situation." He criticized Lew Luton as being too often "merely surly, when he should have been daemonic, and in general failed to reconcile his desire to work like a twentieth century actor." Other actors were praised, and Alan Burke's direction was called "carefully smooth; but there were moments when the spirit of the production was closer to Stella Gibbons than to Emily Bronte."[7]
See also
References
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "Wuthering Heights live on TV". ABC Weekly. 28 October 1959. p. 10.
- ^ "T.V. Highlights". The Biz. New South Wales, Australia. 28 October 1959. p. 11. Retrieved 21 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Lew Luton Back". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 September 1972. p. 5.
- ^ Interview with Alan Burke
- ^ "Disappointing TV Drama". The Age. 17 December 1959.
- ^ "Wuthering Heights on ABN". Sydney Morning Herald. 29 October 1959. p. 11.
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