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Feature film. Excessively violent, melodramatic, fanciful and overlong retelling of the Wyatt Earp legend. Includes an early scene in which a young actor in a travelling stage show, playing to a rowdy saloon...
Video recording of the National Theatre, London’s 2005 production of Theatre of Blood directed by Phelim McDermott with Jim Broadbent as Edward Lionheart. A stage adaptation of the 1973 Douglas Hickox film...
Shows the boyhood of Shakespeare in Stratford and his career in London as actor and dramatist. Conveys impressions of the Elizabethan stage, particularly the Globe Theatre. There are short excerpts from...
A series of nine weekly radio talks in which eminent politicians, poets and thespians give their personal reactions to Shakespeare. Among these are Sir Learie Constantine, West Indies cricketer and...
Short feature. Alfonso Malaspina is a celebrated stage actor. He is forced to stay at home following a multiple fracture of his leg as a consequence of a car accident. At the Central Theatre, "The Tempest"...
Educational film. Actor Hans Conreid discusses aspects of Shakespeare’s works standing before a series of sculptured figures depicting memorable scenes from eight plays. Behind-the-scenes voices speak...
Television polemic. Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier’s position as the pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, arguing that his performances are all show and no substance. This belief is compromised by...
Jenny Lawton talks to actor Scott Shepherd about his role as Hamlet in the current Wooster Group production of the play. Based on Richard Burton’s 1964 film version, Shepherd copies Burton’s performance...
Feature film. Ann, secretary to a theatre critic, is persuaded to alter a poor review of actor Edmond Davey’s performance as Othello at the behest of his actress wife, Barbara. Ann is sacked, then falls in...
Videorecording of the one-man play by William Luce starring Christopher Plummer as American acting legend John Barrymore. With his career in tatters, ageing actor John Barrymore rents an old theatre and...
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