The Drunkards Lament

A strange epistolary and revisionist musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights written by the consumptive brother Branwell Brontë When Branwell the neerdowell tubercular brother of the Brontë sisters discovered that Emily was writing her first novel he offered to be her editor Once he realized that he was the model for the alcoholic Hindley Earnshaw character he reimagined the story as a musical memoir of his own life with Hindley as the hero Reconstructed from Branwells letters to his friend Francis Leyland along with notes sheet music and damaged film fragments this 1898 film originally premiered on the 50th anniversary of the consumption deaths of Branwell and Emily Brontë