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On Stage

Date released

1980

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

1125

NoS ID

329366

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: New Zealander, Barbara Ewing visits the Savoy Hotel for 100th birthday celebrations of The Stage newspaper, the trade journal for Britain’s entertainment industry. Among the one thousand...

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Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

Director

Jack Smight

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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Hamlet (1961 Radio)

Producer

Arthur Russell

Radio broadcast. Two scenes from Hamlet with Ralph Richardson as Hamlet, Judi Dench as Ophelia, Mary Wimbush as Gertrude and Rolf Lefebvre as Polonius.

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Poetry of Coleridge, The

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 60 minutes), £4.99

Sir Ralph Richardson reads five of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s finest works including ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Frost at Midnight’.

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Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...

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Outcast of the Islands (1951)

Director

Carol Reed

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

A vivid and stormy film from 1951 based on a Joseph Conrad novel and directed by Carol Reed.

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Four Feathers, The (1939 Video)

Director

Zoltan Korda

Producer

Irving Asher; Alexander Korda

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 110 min.

Feature film. A disgraced young British officer redeems his honour by helping to put down the Khalifa’s revolt in the Sudan in 1898.

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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £15.99

Richard Attenborough’s celebrated 1969 film adaptation of Joan Littlewood’s musical play about the horrors of World War I. The huge cast includes Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Dirk...

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Richard III (1946 Radio)

Series

Columbia Workshop

Producer

Richard Sanville

Radio adaptation of Richard III by James and Elizabeth Hart with Laurence Olivier as Richard and Ralph Richardson as Buckingham.

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Collectors’ Library of Ten Great Shakespeare Plays: Concise Acting Versions (1961 Audio)

`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...

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