Top cast:Malcolm McDowell,Patrick Magee,Michael Bates
Director:Michelle Schumacher
Genre:History
Region:Mexico
Year:2002
Storyline:It is considered one of Hollywood""s all-time most romantic/drama classics.Filmed with haunting beauty, it is the first film dramatization of Emily Bronte""s wildly passionate 1847 best-selling literary masterpiece, from a screenplay written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (concentrating on the first two-thirds or 17 chapters of the 34 chapter book).When a female civic leader also approached the microphone and began her speech, a similar garble and squawking was heard, only with a higher feminine register.He was mostly irritated that he was being threatened and refused to listen ("Be gone! Ere our arrows fly!"), causing Bard to angrily depart.With cinematographer John Mescall, Whale expertly created a haunting mood in the film, bringing the influence of German Expressionism into its stylistic imagery and sets and into the performance of the Monster""s Bride (Elsa Lanchester) with her jerky robotic movements.A film retrospective was made by director Gail Levin over 40 years later, titledMaking he Misfits (2002), featuring interviews with Arthur Miller and star Eli Wallach and archival photographs.