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  1. Hamlet (1948 Film, Video)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    Oscar-winning feature film adaptation of the play directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.

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  2. Broken Lance (1954 Film)

    Director
    Edward Dmytryk
    Producer
    Sol C. Siegel

    Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...

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  3. Enfants du Paradis, Les (1945 Film)

    aka: Children of Paradise

    Director
    Marcel Carne
    Producer
    André Paulvé

    Feature film. Set in a mime theatre in Paris in the 1820s, tells the story of a free-spirited young woman, Garance, and four men who fall in love with her. There are two scenes from Othello (including V...

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  4. Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

    Director
    Elia Kazan
    Producer
    Louis D. Lighton

    Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...

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  5. Bugsy (1991 Film)

    Director
    Barry Levinson
    Producer
    Barry Levinson; Warren Beatty; Mark Johnson (2)

    Feature film. The story of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the East coast mobster who came to Hollywood in the 1940s to take over the West coast racketeering business, was seduced by its glamour and became...

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  6. Henry V (1944 Film, Video)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    Feature film and Olivier’s directorial debut. The film opens with a typical performance at the Globe Theatre in 1600, moves gradually into reality for the battle and then returns to the Globe. Intended as...

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  7. Titus (1999 Film, Video)

    Director
    Julie Taymor
    Producer
    Julie Airoldi; Jody Patton; Julie Taymor

    Julie Taymor’s film version of Titus Andronicus, based on her 1994 off-Broadway production, with Anthony Hopkins as Titus and Jessica Lange as Tamora. This adaptation is both ‘stylised and...

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  8. Dresser, The (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    Peter Yates
    Producer
    Peter Yates

    A film adaptation by Ronald Harwood of his own play, based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. The story relates the complex relationship between Sir, an ageing...

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  9. Goldwyn Follies, The (1938 Film)

    Director
    George Marshall; H.C. Potter
    Producer
    Samuel Goldwyn

    Musical with music by George Gershwin and Vernon Duke and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Movie producer Oliver Merlin (Menjou) overhears two women criticising a film he is making. He decided to hire one of them,...

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  10. Hamlet (1990 Film)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Dyson Lovell

    Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...

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