In the 1939 Film "Wuthering Heights," anyone who sees this movie is led to believe that Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) does not die. With a flashback in the final scene, the movie comes to an end. Initially, we come to Ellen, or Nelly Dean (Flora Robson), the house-keeper of Thrushcross Grange. She is finishing a story she is telling.

The family doctor, Dr. Kenneth (Donald Crisp), bursts in, saying that he (Dr. Kenneth) must be mad. He has seen Heathcliff in the snow, walking with his arm around a woman. Ellen exclaims, "It was Cathy!" and Dr. Kenneth says, "No, I don't know who it was", and tells them that he was then thrown from his horse. As he drew closer, he found Heathcliff lying in the snow. The woman had disappeared and there was no sign of her. He only found Heathcliff's footprints which appeared in the snow, not hers.

Mr. Lockwood (Miles Mander), the stranger asks, "Is he dead?", and Dr. Kenneth nods, but Ellen says, "No, not dead, Dr. Kenneth. And not alone. He's with her, [Cathy (Catherine) Linton (Merle Oberon)]. They've only just begun to live. Goodbye Heathcliff. Goodbye my wild sweet Cathy."

The last item in the film is the final memorable image of the ghosts (spirits) of Heathcliff and Cathy, walking in the snow, superimposed over a shot of Peniston Crag, an outcrop cliff covering a span over 3 miles. This is where the couple spent many happy hours together in their childhood walking joyously across the heath of Wuthering Heights and Peniston Crag.

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