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Feature film version of Richard III produced as a vehicle for the 19th-century stage tragedian Frederick Warde.
A restored colour version of HAMLET directed by Sven Gade and Heinz Schall with Asta Nielsen as Hamlet and a new score composed by Michael Riessler.
Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...
Feature film presenting the Macbeth plot as a gangster film. Joe Macbeth is number two in the underworld to ‘kingpin’ Duca. Goaded by his wife Lily, who wants Joe to become ‘kingpin’, and...
Feature film. A record of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and the Drury Lane Company’s production of the play. `... the film’s chief purpose is to preserve a performance and a production and makes few...
Feature film version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.
Feature film adaptation of the play. An attempt to unite Shakespeare with the Italian neo-realist school of film-making, with attractive location photography, and naturalistic crowd scenes. The text is...
A compilation of seven early silent versions of Shakespeare plays, created from nitrate prints held in the BFI National Archive. They include examples of hand-stencilled and tinted prints, and, though...
Feature film. An English troupe of actors tour post-Raj India staging performances of Shakespeare to dwindling audiences as British dominance of, and interest in, British culture fades. The film is an ironic...
A feature film which grew out of Stuart Burge’s experience in directing a BBC television version of the play in 1959, as well as a subsequent London stage production. The pedestrian production was...
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