Wuthering Heights is a 1970 British[1] period romantic drama film directed by Robert Fuest, based on the 1847 Emily Brontë novel of the same name.

It stars Anna Calder-Marshall as Cathy and Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, with supporting roles played by Harry Andrews, Pamela Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Ogilvy, and Judy Cornwell.

Also in this version, Nelly Dean, the narrator, is shown as being in love with Hindley and unable to express her feelings due to their class difference.

At the end of the film, perhaps the most controversial of all the differences, Hindley succeeds in fatally shooting Heathcliff and remains the owner of Wuthering Heights.

[9]) In February 1970 AIP announced the film as part of its slate with Robert Fuest, who had just made Just like a Woman, directing from a Pat Tilley script.

[10] The following month the two leads were announced: Timothy Dalton, best known for The Lion in Winter, and Anna Calder-Marshall, best known for Female of the Species.

Filming began 6 April 1970 and was shot on location in Blubberhouses, Weston Hall near Otley, and Brimham Rocks as well as Shepperton Studios.

For the first time in 30 years Hollywood said to me, 'No big names, no huge publicity, just a good film that stands on its merits'.

The last version, with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Cathy, portrayed him as a regular nice guy and her as sweetness and light.

"[18] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times stated, "At the tag end of 1970, the sight of Emily Bronte's Cathy Earnshaw running all over those Yorkshire moors shouting Heathcliff!

"[3] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post panned the film as "inane and incoherent", with "such a tenuous, sickly resemblance to the book it's based on (and whose reputation it's confiscating) that, in simple justice, the producers should be restrained from using the original title.

"[19] David Pirie of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "At the very least, the combination of AIP and Emily Brontë promises a creative tension; but it turns out to provide only a flattened and monotonous version of her classic novel ... they have played safe in the worst possible way, reducing and telescoping the action into a meagre, spiritless soap-opera, with everyone lacking conviction and Heathcliff in particular about as demonic as a shy farm-hand.

[26] The House of Seven Gables was to start filming in England in July 1971 from a script by Tilley who wrote Wuthering Heights.

[28] In April 1972 Sam Arkoff said he wanted to remake Camille by "applying it to the emotions of today", including showing "physical love".