The most Hollywood version of Emily Brontë’s weird, gothic masterpiece, which is still pretty weird and gothic if that’s what you’re into.
Category Archives: William Wyler
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
Audrey Hepburn is a princess slumming it with Gregory Peck’s American reporter in this high-class 1950s version of the same movie that Netflix has made like ten times already.
BEN-HUR (1959)
The biggest hit of its day has a supreme technical achievement slung over a story that feels to me like middling Bible fanfic.
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
A surprisingly universal and human story of three soldiers returning to their home town after World War II, from decades before “PTSD” was a term.
