Top 25 book to film adaptations

Melissa Katsoulis named "twenty-five films that made it from the book shelf to the box office with credibility intact" for the Daily Telegraph.

One title on the list:

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by EMILY BRONTË

Published: 1847

Film adaptation: 1939

Director: WILLIAM WYLER

Brontë’s gothic tale of moors madness gets the William Wyler treatment in this classic movie version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliffe. None of the subsequent adaptations has matched the dark power of the brilliant Wyler’s. Not even the one with Cliff Richard.

Read about the other 24 adaptations on the list.

Wuthering Heights appears on Valerie Martin's list of novels about doomed marriages and Susan Cheever's list of the five best books about obsession.

The Page 99 Test: Wuthering Heights.

--Marshal Zeringue