Matinee Theater - Wuthering Heights

Summary

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Harold's Old Time Radio

Matinee Theater – Wuthering Heights

Air Date: June 17, 2026
Host: Harold’s Old Time Radio
Stars: Victor Jory (Heathcliff/Narrator), Gertrude Warner (Catherine Earnshaw)
Episode Theme: A dramatic radio adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, “Wuthering Heights,” capturing the tempestuous relationship and tragic destiny of Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors.

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Episode Overview

This episode features a full dramatization of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” from the golden age of radio, presented by Vic’s Matinee Theater. Through richly evocative performances, the episode delves into themes of passionate love, obsession, betrayal, social class, and the haunting power of memory.

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Key Discussion Points and Dramatic Highlights

1. Heathcliff’s Decline and Reminiscence

• Setting: Opens in a shadowy bedroom at Wuthering Heights, with Heathcliff near death, haunted by memories of Catherine.
• Nelly the nurse discusses Heathcliff’s unwavering grief and Catherine’s long absence.
  • “There he goes, calling for her again. It’s enough to break your heart.” – Nelly (02:18)
• The narrative moves between present, memory, and confession, blending Heathcliff’s fevered longing and regret with Nelly’s backstory.

2. Heathcliff and Catherine’s Youth

• Backstory: Nelly recalls Heathcliff’s adoption by Mr. Earnshaw, his mistreatment by Hindley, and deep childhood bond with Cathy.
  • “Heathcliff was an orphan, wasn’t he?” – Heathcliff (02:54)
  • “Mr. Earnshaw found the lad wandering in the streets in London and brought him home...” – Nelly (02:56)
• Moors Scene:
  • “It almost makes you want to cry.” – Catherine (04:48)
  • “Sometimes you’re the rain that chills me, and sometimes you’re the fire that warms me.” – Heathcliff (05:14)
• Their innocent joy and wild affinity for the moors are juxtaposed with the foreboding sense of doom.

3. Shifts of Allegiance and Class Tensions

• Edgar Linton enters: A dog attack leads to Cathy’s introduction to Edgar, symbolizing her entry into a different social world (06:12).
• Emotional distance grows between Cathy and Heathcliff as Cathy finds comfort at the Linton house.
  • “Kathy’s changed so ever since she met Linton. She couldn’t care anything for that.” – Heathcliff (08:41)

4. Catherine’s Dilemma

• Cathy agonizes over whether to marry for love (Heathcliff) or social station (Edgar).
  • “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Catherine (09:21)
• Cathy confides to Nelly her deep bond with Heathcliff but acquiesces to social pressures.
  • “But Nellie, I think I must marry Edgar… Do you think it’s true it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff?” – Catherine (09:40)

5. Broken Hearts and Exile

• Heathcliff overhears Catherine’s confession, becomes enraged and vows revenge:
  • “You weren’t born for Edgar Linton, Kathy. You were born for me. And I hope that knowledge torments you until it kills you.” – Heathcliff (10:22)
• He storms off into exile, vowing to haunt her memory.

6. Despair and Tragedy

• Cathy is inconsolable, wandering the moors in search of Heathcliff in a storm, contemplating death.
  • “You are my laughter and my tears. Yours was a name I cried in my dream…” – Catherine (11:45)
• Nelly finds her near collapse; Cathy desperately wishes to follow Heathcliff into death (13:14).

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7. [Act Two] Reunion, Revenge, and Ruin (17:05)

• Heathcliff Returns: After three years, Heathcliff, now wealthy, returns for revenge, catching Catherine by surprise.
  • “I don’t know how it’s possible to love and hate the same person. But I love you and hate you. I should kill you for marrying Edgar Linton.” – Heathcliff (17:56)
• Manipulation of Isabella: Heathcliff woos Edgar’s sister, Isabella, intending to marry her as revenge.
  • “Would you run away with me tonight and marry me?” – Heathcliff to Isabella (19:25)
• Catherine’s heartbreak: Heathcliff's announcement devastates her:
  • “Oh, Heathcliff. Have you not had enough revenge on me?” – Catherine (20:27)
  • “I want you to suffer the way I’ve suffered… die the thousand deaths that I’ve died.” – Heathcliff (20:34)

8. Downfall and Death

• Cathy grows sick and frail, haunted by her choices and heartbreak.
• Heathcliff’s last visit: a moment of unfiltered passion and regret.
  • “Love you? You’re the only thing I’ve ever loved in all my life… It’s heaven and it’s hell.” – Heathcliff (25:10)
  • “Listen to me, darling… I love you. I will always love you.” – Catherine (25:40)
• Cathy dies in Heathcliff’s arms, their bond remaining unbroken by death.

9. Aftermath – Loss and Haunting

• Heathcliff never recovers, believing Catherine’s spirit roams the moors.
  • “She’s been dead for 20 years and still he yearns for her.” – Nelly (27:18)
  • Heathcliff ultimately yearns to join Cathy in death, climaxing with him throwing open the window, believing she waits for him outside (27:44–28:28).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Sometimes you’re the rain that chills me, and sometimes you’re the fire that warms me.” – Heathcliff (05:14)
• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Catherine (09:21)
• “You weren’t born for Edgar Linton, Kathy. You were born for me. And I hope that knowledge torments you until it kills you.” – Heathcliff (10:22)
• “When your world crumbles around you, you either build a new world or die.” – Catherine (18:15)
• “Love you? You’re the only thing I’ve ever loved in all my life. That love for you is the evil and the good in me.” – Heathcliff (25:10)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:46 – Introduction of the broadcast and cast
• 01:32 – Opening narration, setting the scene at Wuthering Heights
• 04:34–06:30 – Heathcliff and Cathy’s youthful exuberance on the moors and first meeting with Edgar
• 09:12–10:22 – Catherine’s confession and Heathcliff’s devastation
• 13:13–14:08 – Cathy’s attempted escape to the moors, rescued by Nelly
• 17:05 – Beginning of Act Two: Heathcliff’s return
• 19:18–20:05 – Heathcliff’s vengeful manipulation of Isabella
• 23:27–26:56 – Cathy’s final illness and death, Heathcliff’s anguish
• 27:44–28:28 – The final haunting moments, Heathcliff’s yearning for Cathy’s ghost

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Tone and Style

The dramatization stays true to the heightened and poetic language of Brontë’s novel, with a brooding, gothic atmosphere and intense emotional performances. The interplay between doom-laden passion and regret is palpable throughout, culminating in an unforgettable finale of loss, longing, and spectral love.

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For fans of classic literature, old-time radio, and timeless stories of passion and tragedy, this evocative adaptation of Wuthering Heights is both a nostalgic experience and testament to radio drama’s power to bring literature vividly to life.

Transcript

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[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

Vic's matinee theater. The makers of Vic's VapoRub present a half hour of romance and adventure starring Victor Jory and featuring Gertrude Warner in Wuthering Heights. This program was formerly called Dangerously Yours and hereafter will be known as the Matinee Theatre in order to bring you a greater variety of plays. First, here's a good thing to remember when you catch a cold. The best known home remedy for relieving miseries of colds. This is Vic Staple Route. How do you do, ladies and gentlemen?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

This is Martin Gable. Today we bring you a story penned over a hundred years ago on the Haworth moors by the brilliant genius that was Emily Bronte. A story that through the passing years has become one of the world's greatest dramatic classics. Wuthering Heights. Our story opens in the shadowy bedroom in the gloomy old house at Wuthering Heights.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

How is Mr. Heathcliff, Doctor? Is there any change? He seems to be quieter.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

If he wanted to live, I think I could save him. As it is, I. I just don't know.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

There he goes calling for her again. It's enough to break your heart.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Care faith. Come in, come in. How long has Catherine been dead?

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Oh, I. I think it's close to 20 years. This was her room, you know. Kathy and Hindley and East Heathcliff grew up in this house together. And Heathcliff might have been their actual brother, the way he was treated. Until Mr. Earnshaw died. I was their nurse, you know.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Heathcliff was an orphan, wasn't he?

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Yes. Mr. Earnshaw found the lad wandering in the streets in London and brought him home. And after Mr. Earnshaw died, Hindley did every he could to make life unbearable for Heathcliff, with the result that the boy spent more time in the stable than the house.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy. Come in. Kathy. Oh, my darling. Hear me, please. Poor fellow.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Here.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Was she beautiful?

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Yes. Yes. A wild, wicked slip she was. But she had the bunniest eyes, the sweetest smile and the lightest foot in the Paris.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy. Kathy. Kathy. I've got to get to Kathy. Help me now. He's out of his head again.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Yes.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy. Let me up.

[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

You.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

She's outside the window, trying to get in. Don't you hear her? Don't you hear her outside, crying in the wind and the snow. Let her in. Let her in. There's no one outside, Heathcliff. Oh, Kathy, come back to my heart. When we were young, you said you'd love me always. Kathy. Remember that day we ran to the heather, laughing at nothing. Laughing at everything. And the wind ran with us. And we were drunk. With the smell of the moors and excitement. Of being young. Of being young together.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, I'm completely, completely out of breath.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Come on. It's only a few more steps to the top of the rock. There.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, Heathcliff, we're on top of the whole world.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

When the sun's going down, the maul looks as though they're on fire.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

It's so beautiful. It almost makes you want to cry.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Don't cry. It hurts me when you cry.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

It hurts you. It hurts you. Heathcliff.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Yes?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, dear. Turn away from me. Heathcliff. Look at me. Tell me why.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I don't know.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Do you think. Do you think it could be because you love me? Heathcliff? You love me, don't you?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I never thought much about it that way. I never like food to me and drink. I know that. Sometimes you're the rain that chills me. And sometimes you're the fire that warms me. And when I'm with you, whether we quarrel or laugh or cry, I feel completely satisfied. And when I'm not with you, I feel lost and torn to pieces. I guess that's love, Kathy. At least it's the only love I know.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, Heathcliff. I love you too. I love you, and I always will.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Darling, it's going to storm. We better start back. Oh, I wish you could see yourself. You're kicked with mud.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, you're not such an elegant companion yourself. Oh, there's the Linton dog. Barky. I want to pet him.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

No. Don't tell him. He's a mean animal. Stay away from him.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I will not. I never saw a dog in my life I couldn't handle. Here, boy. Nice boy. I'll get him.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

You ugly beast. Hunt.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I'll get his throat. Let's go.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Let's.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

What the deuce are you doing with my dog? Of course you're not Clinton, or I'll Throttling. Let go. Be all right. Are you all right, Kathy? Oh, darling, don't cry like that. Let me see your foot.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

It hurts. Look how it's bleeding.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

We'll take care of it at once. I wish I'd killed that dog. You're Miss Kathy and Earnshaw, aren't you?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Why, yes.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I'm a neighbour of yours, Edgar Linton. I've just returned from Oxford. If you'll dismiss your groom, I'll carry you up to the house and have your food attended to.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Thank you. That would be very kind.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Catherine. She's fainted. I'll carry her to the house. Kindly get your master and Miss Anshaw's maid at once. See here, I'm not a servant. Oh, don't stand there arguing, ma'.

[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

Am.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I've got to get help for her. Will you go, or must I send one of my men? I'll go. I'll go. You seen her, Nelly? Is she all right? I asked Hindley, but I couldn't get any satisfaction out of him.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, she's coming along just fine. She'll be home in a few days

[Nelly (Nurse)]

now, but she's happy as a lark up there at the Linton house. Mr. Edgar waits on her hand and foot.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I know. I walked up there last night and I watched them through the window. Nellie, did you ever hate a man so much your fingers ached? Kill him. Well, Kesson, your things are ready and the carriage is at the door. I must say, I miss you.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

I miss you.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

You too, Edgar. You've been very good to me.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I'll continue to be good to you if you let me. Catherine. Kathy, come out for a run on the moors. Let's get away from houses and people.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I can't, Heathcliff. I'm going to a party with Edgar Linton tonight. I have to get ready.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy, please.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I've told you, I have to get ready for a party. Now, that's all there is to it,

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Nelly. Kathy's changed so ever since she met Linton. She couldn't care anything for that.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Why don't you fix yourself up a bit? Get your hair trimmed and get some decent clothes. Do you think Miss Katherine would marry a man with no ambition to be anything better than the gutter snipe he was born?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Yes, I think she loves me and will marry me as I am. I'd stake my life on that.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Nelly. Edgar wants me to marry him.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Do you love him?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Love him? Oh, don't be silly.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Do you love Heathcliff?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Love Heathcliff? Oh, Nellie, I don't think I can tell. I'll tell you how I feel about Heathcliff. It's almost impossible to put into words. I think he's more myself than I am. Whatever Our souls are made of his and mine are the same.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

You can feel that way and yet

[Catherine Earnshaw]

fight and quarrel and hurt him as you do. Yes, of course, he's not always a pleasure to me any more than I'm always a pleasure to myself. But in some strange, inexplicable way, I am Heathcliff. I'd follow him. I'd go to him anywhere if he needed me. But Nellie, I think I must marry Edgar. I talked to Henry last night. He said if I ever spoke of marrying Heathcliff, he'd shoot him on sight. And that I should know it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff. And in the end that would shame me and him. Do you think I should marry Edgar? Do you think it's true it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff? Nell?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Why, yes, Kathy. Of course it's true.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Heathcliff, you were listening.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I didn't mean to. I heard you say it would degrade you to marry me. Go ahead. Marry Edgar Linton. Live in wealth and security and complete boredom if you think that'll make you happy. But I'll tell you right now it won't. You have red blood in you, my girl. You've always run to meet life. You're a half wild creature, blood, bone and sinew of the moors, mothered by them, sired by the wild, fierce Moor winds and cradled in the heather. Marry Edgar Linton. See what happens to a Moor creature when she forsakes her love and the life she was born to lead. You weren't born for Edgar Linton, Kathy. You were born for me. And I hope that knowledge torments you until it kills you. Now, I'll get out of this house and out of this country. But you try to get me out of your heart.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Oh, Father, please.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

You must stop crying like this. You must get some sleep.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

You haven't been in bed for days.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I'm going out. I've got to get out on the moors. There was a rock Heathcliff took me to once. Perhaps he's there.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

He's been gone for a week. He's far from here by now.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

He might be on the rock. I've got to see. I'm going out.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

No, no.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Not in this rain and wind. I've got to go out. I've got to find Heathcliff. Heathcliff. Heathcliff, my darling, you must be here. Heathcliff. Oh, my dying. You can't be lost to me. You are my laughter and my tears. Yours was a name I cried in my dream. Yours are the lips and the arms of my dreaming. Eveth where are you, Eveth? Dear God, please tell me the answer. Where is he? Where is he that I may follow him? Follow him?

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Yes.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Yes, I could follow him. He's gone into the dark, into the moors. One step from this rock, in our distance would be joined one step. God forgive me for the sin I must commit. Take my body to the earth. Let me sleep until his voice awakens me. Let my heart cease aching, My senses are cease throbbing. Let me follow him. Let me follow him. Catherine. Nelly. Wait. Nelly.

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[Nelly (Nurse)]

Nelly.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I followed you. Thank heaven. God forgive you for what you were about to do.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Catherine.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I want to die. Nelly. What is there to live for?

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Oh, a great deal.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Heathcliff is gone. You were a child when you loved him. Now you've lost him and you're a woman. I expect you to face it as a woman. What do you want me to do? I want you to come home. And I want you to marry Edgar Linton. That's your salvation. Catherine. Can a woman live with her heart dried up inside her? Can she speak when her whole being aches to hear one voice answer? Can she look at another man when there's only one man her heart would look upon? Oh, can all those things be?

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[Catherine Earnshaw]

And they must be. Come, Catherine.

[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

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[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

And now, the second act of Wuthering Heights, starring Victor Jory. Our scene opens at the front door of the Linden House. Three years later,

[Catherine Earnshaw]

He's Cliff. Is it possible he.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Well, nice all the greeting you have for me after three years.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Nelly, look at the door.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Good evening, Kathy.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Heathcliff. Oh, he's come in. Oh, it's me.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

So long, my darling. My dearest. My sweet. Oh, you're so beautiful. So very beautiful. Even my memories did you an injustice.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, my dearest.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Oh, it's so good to hold you in my arms again. They've been so empty. I don't know how it's possible to love and hate the same person. But I love being and hate you. I should kill you for marrying Edgar Linton.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

When your world crumbles around you, you either build a new world or die.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Heathcliff, I'd rather you died. He'll be sorry he ever smiled at you. And so will you. My Catherine. I've come back to live at Wuthering Heights. I've money now. There'll be a way for me to get back at you.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Is that why you returned?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Yes, that's why I returned.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Why you speak? But Catherine, you asked me to wait for you in the morning room. But you're so long coming. I'll be there in a moment. Isabella, I don't believe I've had the pleasure of this gentleman's acquaintance.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Katherine, I don't believe you have.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Isabella, this is Mr. Heathcliff, Edgar's sister, Ms. Linton.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Mr. Heathcliff, Edgar'S sister. Well, we must get acquainted, Miss Linton. Any member of your family is of great interest to me.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

He's Cliff.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Isabella. You were sweet to come out on the moors to meet me.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I don't know why Catherine tries to keep me away from you. I don't like to think she's jealous, but I. I don't know what else to think.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Isabella, would you run away with me tonight and marry me?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

But you. You haven't said you love me.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

But I have asked you to marry me. Will you?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes, I'd love to.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Come on then. Let's get back to the house. I'll visit with Kathy while you're getting read. Kathy, how beautiful you are. How much I love you.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Please don't say such things to me.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

You've gotten so thin, pale these last few months. Past months that I've been here. You were healthy in the old days, Kathy.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

It hasn't been exactly easy seeing you and not being able to go to you.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Catherine, I've come to say goodbye. I'm going to marry Isabella.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Marry Isabella? Oh, no, you wouldn't do that.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

You know me better than to say that.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, Heathcliff. Have you not had enough revenge on me?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

No, my dear. Not nearly enough. I want you to suffer the way I've suffered. I want you to think of Isabella in my arms. I want you to know the same torments and hates and that I've known. And I want you to die the thousand deaths that I've died. Get out of this house. Get out instantly. Ah, the master of the house. Come in and join the brawl. I have been so far forbearing with you, sir, because Kathleen asked me that I accept you as a friend. But I tell you here and now that if I ever find you within my jaws again, I will shoot you on sight. Now get out before I have my servants throw you out. Kathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull. It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. So you'll have your servants throw me out, huh? I wish you joy of your milk. Blooded coward. Kathy. I will leave, though, for I have a rendezvous I wouldn't care to miss. Good day, Mr. Linton, Mrs. Linton. I wish you both great happiness. Oh, how one of you can stomach the other is beyond me. Good day.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

I, Isabella, take thee, Heathcliff, to have and to hold from this day forward as long as we both shall live.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

How is Catherinelli? Did she eat her dinner?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

No, it's there on the table, untouched.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

The doctor said I'd better not go into her room at all. She says she's very ill. That she much.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

She's been ill before with cold and fever. Maybe she'll get better.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Has she asked about Heathcliff or Isabella?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Not once. Nelly.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Where are you? Nelly? I'll shut the house down if you don't come out.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Be still. Do you want to disturb Herbert with your cries?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Isabelle and I got back this morning and I heard in the village that Kathy's ill, almost to dying. What happened to her?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

She walked on the moors all night in the rain. After Edgar ordered you from the house? They found her the next day, dazed and half out of her head.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Take me to her. Linton's gone to church. I saw him leave.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

You won't harm her?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Harm her? Oh, no. No, I won't har.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Heathcliff. Oh, I thought you would never come.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy. All my life. How can I bear this?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

You wanted to break my heart. Heathcliff. You haven't come to bewail the deed now that you've accomplished it, have you? How many years do you mean to live, Art? Will you get me? Will you? Say, 20 years hence? That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her once and sorrowed to lose her. But that all passed a long time ago.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Don't torture me.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

You tortured me.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Are you possessed with a devil to talk in that manner to me, lying there on that bed? That may be your deathbed. Don't you know those words will brand my memory and eat the way into me until they destroy me? Is it not enough that for the rest of my life I must rise in a living hell, married to another weeping for you?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Oh, darling, forgive me. Come here close beside me where I can touch your hand. I don't wish you torment, Heathcliff. I didn't mean those things. It's just that I don't want to leave you. We should never have been separated together. We were something beautiful alone. Each of us has been lost and tormented and useless to anyone.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Oh, Kathy, don't let life slip away from you. Hold onto it. Fight your way back. We'll go away together. We'll start over someplace far away.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

You do love me, don't you?

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Love you? You're the only thing I've ever loved in all my life. That love for you is the evil and the good in me. It's the greatest height I can reach and the lowest depth in which I can grovel. It's heaven and it's hell. It's beauty and its degradation. Love you. I was born loving you, not dying.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

My dearest. Put your arms around me. Let me rest my head on your shoulder. Listen to me, darling. I have not many words left to say. And I want them to be to you. I love you. I will always love you. And I will for you. In the cradle of heather out on the moors. These cribs my dust.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy, my dearest. My dearest. What is the meaning of this? We've both lost an owl. L. We've both lost an owl. Oh, Kathy. Garvey. Garvey. Come in all my hearts, Darling. Hear me.

[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

Please.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Please hear me. Mr. Heathcliff. At last. Mr. Heathcliff, you must rest.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

You've heard more of the story of Kathy and Heathcliff tonight than anyone in this part of the country. You heard him say things he would never say if he'd had any knowledge of what he was saying.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

And she's been dead for 20 years, and still he yearns for him.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Yes. He thinks she wanders out on the moors waiting for him. Then is the night he flung the window open and sat by it all night, crying her name and calling her. But she never comes in. She's waiting out there.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I heard you outside. I'll open the window and let you come in. Will you come in this time? When I open the window? Catherine. Let me up.

[Nelly (Nurse)]

Oh, no. No.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

I must go to her. She's waiting outside the window. Don't you hear her?

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Let me up.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

We must hold him down. Help me, Nelly. He's out of breath.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Kathy.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Come in, my dearest. Kathy. Kathy, I hear you. I know you're there.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

Kathy, the windows. God save us, the windows blow open.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Kathy, my darling, close the windows quickly. I'll hold him.

[Catherine Earnshaw]

No, leave them open.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Oh, Kathy, my care. He's gone. Nelly. You can close the windows now. He's gone beyond them.

[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

In just a moment, Mr. Jory will tell you about next week's production. And meanwhile, a timely message.

[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Mother.

[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

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[Victor Jory (Narrator/Heathcliff)]

Vicks VapoRub. This is Victor Jory. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the many kind letters I received from you suggesting your choice of plays, books and motion pictures. Need I tell you that your letters and suggestions are always welcome? Please address me Carol. Victor Jory. Columbia broadcasting system, New York 22. New York. Next week, Vic's Matinee Theater will present one of Samuel Goldwyn's greatest motion picture successes. The memorable and exciting story of two people forbidden to love. Beloved Enemy.

[Vic Staple Route (Announcer)]

Our play was written by Gene Holloway from the book Wuthering Heights and directed by Richard Sandville. Music for the series is under the direction of Mark Warno. Be sure and listen in again next week when Vic's Matinee Theater presents Beloved Enemies, starring Victor Jory. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.