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  1. Hireling, The (2009)

    Director
    Alan Bridges
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

    A recently widowed aristocrat Lady Helen Franklin (Sarah Miles), shattered by her husband’s death, takes to a sanatorium to get her feet again. On her discharge she strikes up a hesitant relationship with...

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  2. Royal Hunt of the Sun, The (1969 Video)

    Director
    Irving Lerner
    Producer
    Philip Yordan
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

    Film version of the Peter Shaffer play recounting the Spanish conquest of Peru, when 167 conquistadors led by Pisarro killed 7000 of the Inca’s god-king Atahualpa’s army of 80,000 in a single battle. In...

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  3. Birthday Party, The (1968)

    Director
    William Friedkin
    Producer
    Max Rosenberg; Milton Subotsky
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £12.99

    Robert Shaw and Patrick Magee star in this 1968 cinema adaptation by Harold Pinter of his play about a lodger in a seaside boarding house threatened by two strangers.

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  4. Birthday Party, The (1968)

    Director
    William Friedkin
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 123 minutes), $11.97

    The Birthday Party was originally presented on stage in London in 1958 and since then the play has been frequently revived. Its author, Harold Pinter, is now recognised as one of the greatest talents in...

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  5. Man for All Seasons, A (1966)

    Director
    Fred Zinnemann
    Producer
    Fred Zinnemann
    Subject
    Drama; History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

    A film based on Robert Bolt’s play about Sir Thomas More’s personal conflict when King Henry VIII asks his support in breaking with Rome and forming the Church of England.

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  6. Hamlet at Elsinore (1964 Television)

    Director
    Philip Saville
    Producer
    Peter Luke
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 165 minutes), $24.98

    1964 television broadcast of the English/Danish co-production of the play which was filmed at Kronsberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Christopher Plummer is Hamlet with a supporting cast that includes Michael...

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  7. Winter’s Tale, The (1953 Film)

    Director
    Charles Deane
    Producer
    Charles Deane
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy found (11/2007).

    The final scene from The Winter’s Tale enacted by players from the Young Vic Company with a thirty second introduction by Ronald Howard.

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  8. Winter’s Tale, The (Television)

    Director
    Don Taylor
    Subject
    Drama

    Televised adaptation of the play which aims, according to producer Don Taylor, at ‘simplicity and understanding’ (Radio Times, 12 April 1962, p.51). Starring Robert Shaw as Leontes and Rosalie Crutchley...

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  9. Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth (Television)

    Director
    Robert Atkins; Michael Barry
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy known

    BBC schools broadcast in which actor-manager Robert Atkins directs a group of students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth (see notes). The programme is meant to...

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  10. King Lear (Radio)

    Director
    George Devine
    Producer
    Wilfrid Grantham
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy known

    Shakespeare’s tragedy produced for radio by Wilfrid Grantham. This version is adapted from George Devine’s theatre production at the Stratford Memorial Theatre, with Michael Redgrave in the title role....

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