Learning on ScreenDente per Dente
- Alternative title
- Measure for Measure
- Synopsis
- Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English sub-titles.
- Language
- Italian (Standard)
- Country
- Italy
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 1942
- Duration
- 83 mins
- Availability
- No archive copy found (2006)
Credits
- Director
- Marco Elter
- Cinematographer
- Antonio Marzari
- Screenplay
- Enrico Ribulsi; Guglielmo Usellini
- Music
- Giovanni Fusco
- Production Design
- Piero Filippone
- Cast
Alfredo Varelly Vincentio, Duke of Vienna Carlo Tamberlani Angelo Caterina Boratto Isabella Osvaldo Genazzani Claudio Loredana Juliet Memo Benassi Lucio Nelly Corradi Mariana
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Measure for Measure
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- Very little is known about the film. Peter Morris in ‘Shakespeare on Film’, Films In Review 24:3 (1973);132-163 believes it to be ‘lost’ . The papers donated by Professor Ball to the Folger Shakespeare Library however note that he saw the film on 8 September 1948 when it was screened for him by the US distributor, Jack Hoffberg. His notes state that this is a loose adaptation which retains the broad outline of the plot but loses a great deal of dialogue.
- History
- Released in the US 1951.
- Reviews
- Variety (2 January 1952).
Production Company
- Name
Atlas Film
- Address
- Italy
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