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  1. 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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  2. Tempest (1982 Film)

    Director
    Paul Mazursky
    Producer
    Paul Mazursky

    Feature film based on The Tempest. Phillip, a New York architect, abandons his wife (who is having an affair with tycoon, Alonzo) and career by fleeing to Greece with his teenage daughter, Miranda. In Athens...

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  3. Taming of the Shrew, The (1967 Film, Video)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Franco Zeffirelli; Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor

    Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance

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  4. Never Eat Quackers in Bed (1962 Television)

    Series
    Beany and Cecil Show, The
    Director
    Jack Hannah; Dick Kinney; Bob Clampett

    Animated cartoon series created by Bob Clampett. It features Beany, a boy, and Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent embarking on a series of adventures, often to discover ancient civilisations and artifacts. These...

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  5. Man from Laramie, The (1955 Film)

    Director
    Anthony Mann
    Producer
    William Goetz

    Feature Western film in which critics have seen the influence of the Gloucester sub-plot in King Lear. The patriach, Donald Crisp, is worried about his kingdom (cattle ranch) and, like Gloucester, he is...

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  6. Men of Respect (1991 Film, Video)

    Director
    William Reilly
    Producer
    Ephriam Horowitz

    Gangster film based loosely on Macbeth, and set in the world of the New York Mafia, a young man wins the respect of his godfather by murdering the leaders of a rival family. In his quest for total power he...

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  7. Tonight and Every Night (1945 Film)

    Director
    Victor Saville
    Producer
    Victor Saville

    Feature film musical about the efforts of London’s Windmill Theatre to stay open during the Blitz. In one scene in an officers’ mess a notice-board announces ‘By permission of Group Captain G. Homesby,...

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  8. Tallowed Image/Room and Bard, The (1983 Television)

    Series
    Fantasy Island
    Director
    Carl Kugel
    Producer
    William Kelley

    US television romantic fantasy drama series consisting of several different stories each week played out against a common background - a remote island resort, where each visitor could have one life-long...

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  9. King Lear Jet (1997 Television)

    Series
    Just Shoot Me!
    Director
    Lee Shallat-Chemel

    US television sitcom about a former journalist, Maya Gallo, who begins a new job writing for her father’s women’s magazine Blush. Jack has two tickets for a London performance of King Lear, but when...

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  10. Jubal (1955 Film)

    Director
    Delmer Daves
    Producer
    William Fadiman

    Feature film western based loosely on the plot of Othello. Jubal Troop is found injured by rancher Shep Horgan and given a job as a cow-hand. Jubal soon finds himself admired by Mae, Shep’s wife. Mae has...

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