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Television programme presented by Elwyn Jones. Dame Edith Sitwell repeats a recital of poems which she gave at the Edinburgh Festival in 1959. Among the recitations are the song ‘Take, O! take those lips...
The trial of Richard III, who was accused of murdering the princes in the Tower. The trial takes place in a reconstructed Old Bailey courtroom with the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Elwyn Jones, as Judge. Two...
Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...
Earliest extant British televised production of the play with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role.
What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...
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