Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinema statistics on 1938 in the 1939 Film Daily Year Book...
...fine autocratic way with the English language and chronology and things like that. . . . Still, the title is not everything; and its retention does not-witness among many others the conspicuous case of Bengal Lancer-at all imply that the film will be even remotely identifiable with the book...
...appeared last August in a London Times editorial. Last week they might well have been eaten by their author. As produced by Mr. Goldwyn, directed by William Wyler and acted by Merle Oberon, Lawrence Olivier, David Niven and Flora Robson, Wuthering Heights is not only readily identifiable with the book but one of the season's distinguished pictures...
...cinematerial, Wuthering Heights might seem as farfetched a prospect as any book yet pillaged. It is crammed with neurotic, 19th-Century gloom, ridden with implications of incest, short on action, careless of conventional morality. As additional drawbacks, Mr. Olivier, entrusted with the crucial role of Heathcliff, boasts that he dislikes working for the movies and only does it for money; Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, preparing for their labors on Gunga Din, could barely be persuaded to leave their marathon backgammon game long enough to write a script. The script turned out brilliantly. Olivier's work as Heathcliff...
...story. Steinbeck has made them real, round, solid characters. Brought up on selfreliance, now they come into conflict with things that are beyond them. The story sprouts from this base; as conditions grow worse, the spirit grows stronger. There is no resolution to the problem in the book though with no solution in sight, it ends on a note of trust in their integrity. The author has let actions speak for the morale of the people, with only occasional direct expressions of their philosophy, and this is as it should be. Interspersed are chapters of Steinbeck's own comments which...