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Feature film comedy. The local squire insists on staging a production of Macbeth. A visiting film star halts the play’s progress and falls in love with the squire’s daughter.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s chronicle of the English monarchy from Saxon times, with musical interludes. The readings are from literary works in the public domain and were compiled by John Barton.
A recording of the National Theatre production, directed by John Dexter, restyled somewhat for film, but retaining much of its ‘staginess’, Olivier doing little to adapt his towering and extravagant...
A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.