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Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a self-appointed preacher with ‘LOVE’ and ‘HATE’ tattooed on his knuckles, who travels to a small town in search of his executed cellmate’s stash of cash, under...
Television series of filmed classics. Charles Laughton recites from the Bible and other texts, reads poetry, tells stories and jokes including a reading from Twelfth Night (II iv).
Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud has been planning a vacation for months. However, when his boss, the tyrannical media tycoon Earl Janoth insists he skips his holidays, Stroud resigns in...
Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...
Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes an enactment of the quarrel scene from Julius Caesar with Welles as Brutus and Charles Laughton as Cassius.
Second in a 3-part series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and opinions of...
Broadcast version of Shakespeare’s play performed by the Old Vic Company produced by Tyrone Guthrie. With Charles Laughton and Flora Robson as the Macbeths. Dennis Arundell narrates. Music by Herbert Menges.
A version made for American television, but not transmitted, of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Charles Laughton as Bottom and Vanessa Redgrave as Helena.
Radio variety show. In this edition the guest, Charles Laughton, coaches the series host Al Jolson in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. The jokes revolve around Laughton’s British accent and...
A televised recording (although never transmitted) for NBC of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The production is prefaced by a short Prologue...
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