Word: wyler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are all sorts of great stories about the filming of the movie. Sam Goldwyn almost fired him three times because he insisted on putting so much make-up on that he was unrecognizeable. "He's the ugliest actor I've ever seen!" Goldwyn screamed at the director, William Wyler. Wuthering Heights was written by, of all people. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur The script is the essence of the chord that less talented screenwriters tried to put out and couldn't. It gushes, but skillfully and effectively...
...heart. Oliver was just a year old. Usually such patients do not undergo conventional open-heart surgery until they are at least two, and in the interim normal development may be seriously retarded. In Oliver's case, a team of surgeons at the University of Chicago's Wyler Children's Hospital used a dramatic technique that involved drastically lowering Oliver's body temperature and briefly stopping his heart. Their success a month ago means a normal life for Oliver and new hope for other infants with similar defects...
...Robert Replogle at Wyler Children's Hospital thought that Oliver Clark was a good candidate for hypothermia, and the child's family agreed that the risk was worth taking. Preparations for the operation were painstaking. Oliver's body was packed in ice bags and suspended over a tank of cold water. When the infant's temperature had dropped to about 65° F. and his heart rate to 24 beats per minute, Replogle injected a potassium solution into the heart. That stopped the heart, leaving Oliver in a condition closely resembling death. With the patient...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...
...story rides, doesn't try to obfuscate the dialogue, and relies squarely on his camera only in climactic moments. Since the film is an epic, there are many of them: gruesome treks, battle scenes and fatal individual combats. There is little of the David Lean-William Wyler pretension strangling itself in technicolor and wallowing in bathos...