Learning on ScreenAntony and Cleopatra
- Synopsis
- Feature film. A heavily abridged version of the play with emphasis on the scenes between Antony and Cleopatra. Much of the political plot and some of Enorbarbus’ lines are omitted. A narrator explains place and time transitions.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 1951
- Duration
- 33 mins
- Availability
- No archive copy or distributor found (2006)
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Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- schools; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Reviews
- Peter M. Morris in his survey ‘Shakespeare on Film’, Films in Review 24: 3 1973):132-163 notes ‘the production in general lacks poetic feeling, the acting is stilted and the speeches are inaudible. The sound track is not even properly synchronised with the visual image’.
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