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Gangster comedy written by Frédéric Valmain taking inspiration from Macbeth. No further details known (10/2008).
60-Second Shakespeare is a BBC project to encourage UK students to create their own 60-second interpretations of Shakespeare using audio, video, animation and IT skills. This film is presented as a trailer...
Television comedy drama. A Hollywood film star is playing the lead in a New York stage production of Hamlet. While rehearsing the ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy he is stabbed in the neck with a quill. It...
Feature film. A satirical and black comedy interpretation of the play. A thug named Macbeth starts a gang war at the instigation of his girlfriend who eventually commits suicide. As the mobsters become...
Gangster film based loosely on Macbeth, and set in the world of the New York Mafia, a young man wins the respect of his godfather by murdering the leaders of a rival family. In his quest for total power he...
Feature film. Set in 1930s Harlem, Lem Anderson (Frank Wilson) is a vaudeville actor who aspires to performing Shakespeare. One evening after a show he witnesses a notorious gangster’s murder. The...
A gangster version of Richard III set in contemporary Los Angeles.
Feature film. Musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. An aspiring chorus girl finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is appearing in, is found dead in her...
Macbeth discovers that destiny cannot be thwarted.
The murderous exploits of Hamlet are bought into sharp relief.
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