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Fiction film setting Romeo and Juliet as a story of North American tribes where the Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. Perhaps the first feature film to appropriate a Shakespeare story. The Vitagraph...
Melodrama. During World War II, Krishnendu Mukerjee, a priest, is brought a wounded woman whom he recognises as Rina Brown, an Anglo-Indian and his former lover. In flashback he recalls his college days...
Hindi feature film. The story of Violet Stoneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher who lives in a dingy apartment in Calcutta and teaches Shakespeare. Two young lovers walk into her life one Christmas...
Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...
Feature film. An Indian version of Hamlet believed to have been based on a stage production. Adapted by Amanot Hasrat and E.D. Verma. Many scenes are transposed and the parts of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern...
Feature film. A teen romance combining a Romeo and Juliet theme with a pop musical. Dhanraj Singh spent years in prison for killing the man responsible for his sister’s suicide. His family, and the family...
Feature film. When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage ‘An Evening With Shakespeare’, their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker (Parsons), who views the works of Shakespeare as...
Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...
A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...
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