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Open-Air Concert for Wounded Soldiers (1917 Film)

Series

War Office Official Topical Budget

The second of four stories in the newsfilm. "WAR ENTERTAINMENTS: A large number of wounded soldiers were entertained by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hanover Lodge, Regent’s Park".

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Henry V (1989 Radio)

Series

Play of the Week (BBC World Service)

Director

Walter Acosta

Two-part production of Shakespeare’s play adapted by Brett Usher, directed by Walter Acosta, starring David Schofield as Henry. No further information available (12/2008).

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Danger Within (1959 Film)

aka: Breakout

Director

Don Chaffey

Producer

Colin Lesslie

Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...

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Fortunes of War. Episode 2: June 1940 (1987 Television)

Series

Fortunes of War

Director

James Cellan Jones

Producer

Betty Willingdale

Television serial, in seven parts, based on the Balkan and Levant trilogies, Olivia Manning’s autobiographical accounts of her travels with her husband Reggie Smith between 1939 and 1943. Together for the...

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Pimpernel Smith (1941 Film)

Director

Leslie Howard

Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...

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Sen Noci Svatojanske (2000 Video)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream a

Director

Michal Docekal

A video recording of Michal Docekal’s 2000 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Theatre of Comedy, Prague set in London during the Second World War. David Matasek is Oberon and Alena Streblova...

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Glorious Deeds (1977 Radio)

Series

Theatre of the Air

Producer

Dickon Reed

Second of 6 one-hour episodes in which three plays (Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, Henry V) are joined together in Dickon Reed’s radio adaptation which follows the fortunes of Prince Hal. With music by...

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National Youth Theatre: Coriolanus (1965 Television)

aka: Coriolanus

Director

Roger Jenkins

Producer

Bernard Hepton; Michael Croft

Televised recording of Michael Croft’s National Youth Theatre Company stage production set in 1914. John Nightingale is Coriolanus.

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Dresser, The (1993 Radio)

Series

Monday Play, The

Director

David Blount

Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1996 Video)

Director

Marti Maraden

Video recording of Marti Maraden’s 1996 production of The Merchant of Venice for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Douglas Rain is Shylock.

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