Time Flies

Synopsis

Feature film comedy. Tommy Handley and friends are transported back in time to Elizabethan England. Among various encounters with Elizabethans, Susie Barton enters the Globe theatre and finds William Shakespeare struggling to write Romeo and Juliet. She suggests lines for the balcony scene (II ii) which they enact together.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of release

1944

Duration

88 mins; 7,945 feet

Credits

Director

Walter Forde

Producer

Edward Black

Cinematographer

Basil Emmott

Screenplay

Howard Irving Young; J.O.C. Orton; Ted Kavanagah

Music

Bretton Byrd; Lewis Levy

Cast

Evelyn Dall	Susie Barton
Graham Moffatt	Nephew
John Salew	William Shakespeare
Leslie Bradley	Walter Raleigh
Moore Marriott	Soothsayer
Olga Lindo	Queen Elizabeth
Tommy Handley	Tommy

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Romeo and Juliet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Globe Theatre; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Time Travel

Notes

Notes

The BFI National Archive holds 35mm preservation material only. No viewing copy (2005).

Reviews

Douglas Lanier, ‘ShakespeareareTM:: Myth and Biographical Fiction’ in Shaughnessy, Robert (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2007), 93-113, p. 96-7

Production Company

Name

Gainsborough Pictures

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web

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