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Three Sisters (1970)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

John Goldstone

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £19.99

A feature film version of the play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Moura Budberg, with music by William Walton, based on the 1967 National Theatre production of the play. Two fantasy sequences are added for...

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Olivier! (2007 Radio)

Series

Archive Hour, The

Producer

Julia Adamson

Radio documentary, presented by Mark Lawson, celebrating Laurence Olivier’s centenary. A fascinating account of Olivier’s career and acting legacy with revealing comment and anecdotes from those who...

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National Theatre 50th Anniversary DVD (2014)

Director

Adam Low

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 301 minutes), £29.99

A 2 disc DVD of the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations, which contains the ‘50 Years on Stage’ live gala performance and the two part Arena documentary on the history of the National...

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Comedy of Errors, The (1954 Television)

Producer

Lionel Harris

A televised ‘operatic’ production of the play by Lionel Harris with music composed by Julian Slade and James Turner.

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Merchant of Venice, The (1974 Television)

Director

John Sichel

Producer

Cecil Clarke

Originally staged by Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic in 1970 and then at the National Theatre, London in 1971, the production was subsequently recorded for television. The production is set in Venice in the...

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Last Action Hero (1993 Film)

Director

John McTiernan

Producer

John McTiernan; Steve Roth

Feature blockbuster action/comedy film. Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a...

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Te con Mussolini, Un (1998 Film)

aka: Tea with Mussolini

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Producer

Riccardo Tozzi; Giovannella Zannoni; Clive Parsons

Feature film comedy drama, based on Zeffirelli’s autobiography, concerning a group of elderly expatriate English women living in Florence in 1934. One of the group (Mary), who are known as the...

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Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955 Television)

Director

Orson Welles

Version, intended for television, of Welles’ stage production of his play based on Melville’s novel. Filmed for three weeks but filming subsequently abandoned after c75 minutes had been shot. It was...

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