Top cast:Michael Fassbender,Katherine Waterston,Billy Crudup
Director:Robert W. Paul
Genre:Drama
Region:Czech Republic
Year:2003
Storyline:Early working titles for the film includedLucky StrikeandThe Northern Story.The film, inspired in part by the gruesome Donner Party story, was shot (over a period of 15 months from spring 1924-summer 1925) both on a Hollywood studio back lot and in Truckee, California/Nevada, and premiered in New York at the Strand Theatre in mid-August, 1925.During a round-up of suspects by police gendarmes in he city, the precarious situation of a collection of refugees (those in European clothing in Casablanca) is set up by a few short scenes:The open-air city market, a scene of intrigue, is eeming with black marketeers, smugglers, thieves, spies, double agents and refugees who desperately seek to obtain tickets (exit visas) on the daily plane to neutral Lisbon.[Note: During filming, Chaplin was in the midst of a difficult divorce from his first wife, teenaged bride Mildred Harris, a 17 year-old whom the 29 year-old Chaplin married in 1918.There were numerous other versions of the film, including:a silent version in 1920, director Luis Bunuel""s Spanish-language versionAbismos de Pasion (Depths of Passion) (1953)Robert Fuest""s American International and UK versionWuthering Heights (1970)with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall in the lead rolesFrench director Jacques Rivette""sHurlevent (1985)Peter Kosminsky""s faithfully-toldWuthering Heights (1992)with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennesa made-for-TV featureWuthering Heights (1998)as part of the Masterpiece Theatre seriesThe 1939 film was a critical success, earning eight Academy Award nominations in one of the most hotly-contested years ever - often called "the greatest year in motion picture history.