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Musical comedy updating The Taming of the Shrew. Pamela Beren (Thelma Todd) is beautiful and spoilt, ferocious and shrewish, her fiery nature causing fear in her father, brother and the servants. Tom Daly, a...
Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective. Jessica Fletcher. In this episode Jessica rushes to London in an attempt to aid her cousin, a famous actress in...
Feature film. A spy thriller taking it’s name from Hamlet’s line ‘I am but mad north-north-west’ (II ii). New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by...
Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...
Radio documentary. As part of a three-hour tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bernstein’s musical, two documentary programmes look at the origins of the musical, how it made its way to Broadway,...
A four-part historical documentary series on the life of Shakespeare, presented by Michael Wood.
A low-budget, punk rock, exploitation, B film based on Romeo and Juliet and set in modern Manhattan. Filmed in Troma style with much gratuituous violence, it exhibits a healthy disregard for taste and comes...
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