Whether Emerald Fennell’s recent Wuthering Heights film is crap or not will cease to be a concern once you’ve seen this. It’s like something Chris Morris dreamt up for Brass Eye. Stunning.
Sir Heath-Cliff’s lost musical masterpiece
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An abonimation!
I’ve just reread the book – one of the few from the 19th century that I’ve enjoyed – and it deserves much better than the versions that have come from the film industry, and Kate Bush, over the years.
Is Cliff supposed to be George Michael or Demis Roussos?
I’m digging his northern accent – reminds me of that Kevin and Perry Oasis sketch.
He just wants us to know how very, very heterosexual he is.
Amazingly, this clip of the Living Doll popped up on my YouTube feed just yesterday – contains both Sir Clifford and mentions of Kate Bush…..
Strange coincidence or dark forces at work ….. ?
“It’s ridiculous, Margot Robbie is too old to play Cathy”
Sir Cliff: Hold my Ensure Plus drink..
Blimey. It’s like a shite theme park ride that you think can’t get any worse. And then Cliff makes it worse by his pronounciation/scream of soul right at the end. Like a crap school musical at a private school for rich, over confident, talentless arseholes.
It almost makes me wish I’d seen the whole thing. But then again…
Although I greatly dislike this man (and his Shadows), I think this is just typical of West End musical style of the era.
Having sat through a few school productions in my time, it’s the parents I feel sorry for.
For the record, I think the EF film is outstanding.
I remember this coming out. Did it do better than (Cliff friend) Mike Read’s Oscar Wilde masterpiece?
But aren’t all these stage musicals based on great novels or films pretty awful? For peak Cliff acting check out his performance in one of the greatest films of the 70s Take Me High …
Oh dear. I like Fergie’s appearance at the beginning.
I have a soft spot for “Take Me High”, with Cliff as the trendy stockbroker living on a barge and (spoiler alert!) inventing the “Brumburger” … I first saw it at the cinema in a double bill with (IIRC) “Never Too Young To Rock”, one of those awful and never-since-shown 70s Brit pop (as opposed to Britpop) films with Mud, Showaddywaddy and The Glitter Band…
That would be The Rubettes, not Showaddywaddy. It wasn`t THAT bad!
You are correct of course, Mick, I was thinking of the contemporaneous “Three For All”, an even worse Brit teensploitation movie, even if it did star my major crush, Adrienne Posta…
I can’t remember it coming out
I’m not sure he ever did.
I live in Brum and went to see a special screening of Take Me High a few years back. While we were all sat politely in the dark waiting for it to start, a loud local accent at the front suddenly spoke loudly:
“Wait, I have seen this before! It’s shit.”
Personally I love it for its kitsch, have a T-Shirt of it.
That person spoke the truth. No amount of Bob Stanley-esque revisionism can be applied. It’s got the artistic credibility of Seaside Special hosted by Basil Brush and Graham from The Grumbleweeds. Even Aki Streeter would think twice about getting involved.