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Hamlet (1937 Radio)

Series

Streamlined Shakespeare

Director

Forrest Barnes

Producer

John Barrymore

An NBC radio recording of Hamlet with John Barrymore in the title role and that of the Ghost. Barrymore also narrated the story.

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Hamlet (1980 Audio)

Director

Richard Eyre

Live sound recording of Hamlet staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1980 and directed by Richard Eyre. Jonathan Pryce is Hamlet.

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Hamlet (1997 Video)

Director

Csaba Kiss

Video recording of Hamlet staged by the Nemzeit Gyori Színház in 1997. Directed by Csaba Kiss with Zoltán Hegedus in the title role. Zsolt Kovács doubles as Claudius and the Ghost.

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Hamlet Liikemaailmassa (1987 Film, Video)

aka: Hamlet Gets Business Hamlet Goes Business

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Producer

Aki Kaurismäki

Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and...

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Bill Morrison: Selected Films 1996-2014 (2015)

Director

Bill Morrison

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £49.99

3-disc Blu-ray set of films by New York-based filmmaker Bill Morrison. Disc 1: THE FILM OF HER (1996). CITY WALK (1999), GHOST TRIP (2000), DECASIA (2002), THE MESMERIST (2003), LIGHT IS CALLING (2004),...

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Cymbeline (1988 Audio)

Director

Peter Hall

Live sound recording of Peter Hall’s 1988 production of Cymbeline with Geraldine James as Imogen and Tony Church as Cymbeline.

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Dickens Before Sound (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

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Whistle and I’Ll Come to You (1968 Video)

aka: Oh, Whistle, And I’Ll Come to You, My Lad

Director

Jonathan Miller

Producer

Jonathan Miller

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

A television adaptation by Jonathan Miller for the BBC ‘Omnibus’ series, of M R James’s story of the supernatural ‘Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad’. A tale of solitude, terror and the...

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Casting the Runes

Director

Lawrence Gordon Clark

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes + extras), £9.99

A contemporary reworking of M.R. James’ classic ghost story, Casting the Runes is adapted by BAFTA-nominated playwright Clive Exton and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. It stars Iain Cuthbertson, Edward...

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JFK (1991 Film)

Director

Oliver Stone

Feature film. A fictional account of the conspiracy around John F. Kennedy’s assassination investigated by district attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison quotes ‘One may smile and smile and be a villain’ (1...

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