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Edgar Hamlet (1935 Film)

Director

Arthur Ripley

Producer

Lee S. Marcus

RKO comedy short. A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over the source of Shakespearean speeches. Lanier (op cit) notes that the film is ‘revealing for its assumptions about the highbrow status...

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Saptapadi (1961 Film)

Director

Ajoy Kar

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...

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Midsummer Night’s Cream, A (2000 Film)

Director

Stuart Canterbury

Hardcore pornographic adaptation which Lanier (op cit) describes as ‘one of the glossier and more faithful of the X-rated adaptations’, although Theseus’ and Hippolyta’s marriage and the mechanicals...

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Julius Caesar (1938 Radio)

aka: Caesar

Series

Mercury Theatre on the Air

Director

Orson Welles

Producer

Orson Welles

Radio recording of the play based on Welles’ 1937 modern-dress stage production for the Federal Theater.

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Edgar Bergen and Charles McCarthy Show [09/11/1947] (1947 Radio)

Series

Edgar Bergen and Charles McCarthy Show, The

Director

Earl Ebi

Series featuring ventiloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charley McCarthy. Charley and his chums plan to stage Romeo and Juliet in a barn but they need a star name to bring in the crowds so they ask Maurice...

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Twelfth Night (1937 Radio)

Series

Columbia Shakespeare Cycle

Producer

Brewster Morgan

A CBS radio version of Twelfth Night with Tallulah Bankhead as Viola and Orson Welles as Orsino. Narrated by Conway Tearle.

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Macbeth (2003 Audio, Radio)

Series

Stage 48

Director

Andrew Allen

Producer

Andrew Allen

Radio broadcast of the play directed by Andrew Allen and adapted by Lister Sinclair with Frank Peddie and Margot Christie as the Macbeths. Narrated by Lorne Greene.

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Intikam Melegi (1977 Film)

aka: Female Hamlet Kadim Hamlet The Angel of Vengeance - The Female Hamlet

Director

Metin Erksan

Feature film. Low budget, independent film in which Hamlet is played by a woman (often in male dress) and Ophelia by a man. The film is set in contemporary Turkey; it maintains the outline of Hamlet while...

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Playmates (1941 Film)

Director

David Butler

Producer

Cliff Reid

Feature film. John Barrymore, in his final film, plays a Shakespearean actor caricaturing himself. His attempts to tutor an aspiring star arouse jealousy. The various references to Shakespeare include a...

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Walker (1987 Film)

Director

Alex Cox

Producer

Lorenzo O’Brien; Angel Flores Marini

Biopic loosely based on the life of William Walker, an American adventurer who invaded Nicaragua in the 19th century and declared himself president. In once scene Walker and his friends watch a production of...

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