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  1. Lone Star Love, Or, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas (2005 Video)

    Director
    Michael Bogdanov

    Musical version of Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor set in Texas in the 1860s. Conceived and adapted by John L. Haber, music and lyrics by John Herrick. Directed for the stage by Michael...

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  2. Put Money in Thy Purse (2004 Radio)

    Series
    Saturday Play, The
    Director
    Alison Hindell

    In 1952 the Irish stage star Micheal MacLiammoir made his cinematic debut as Iago in Orson Welles’s Othello. His diary of the process - a chronicle of chaos, financial crises and endless travel that starts...

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  3. Much Ado (2003 Film)

    Director
    Kipley Wentz
    Producer
    Kipley Wentz; Kendra Munger

    Low-budget backstage comedy about young filmmakers struggling to make an independent indie version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The film quotes liberally from the play and the relationships between the...

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  4. Beginner’s Luck (2002 Film)

    Director
    Nick Cohen; James Callis
    Producer
    Harriet Evans-Lombe

    Feature film. Mark Feinman (Callis) dreams that he is stranded alone on a desert island. He believes his dream to be a premonition and immediately sets up a touring theatre company with two friends. Their...

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  5. My Own Private Idaho (1991 Film)

    Director
    Gus Van Sant
    Producer
    Allan Mindel

    Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.

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  6. Champignon des Carpathes, Le (1990 Film)

    aka: Carpathian Mushrooms, The

    Director
    Jean-Claude Biette
    Producer
    Marie Bodin

    Faeture film. An old American Broadway legend living in Paris is attempting to put together a small production of Hamlet. Unfortunately, his Ophelia was exposed to radiation in a reactor accident in southern...

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  7. Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983 Film)

    aka: Strange Brew

    Director
    Dave Thomas; Rick Moranis
    Producer
    Louis M. Silverstein

    Feature film arising from the SCTV television comedy sketch series. Oafish, lager-swilling brothers, Bob and Doug, secure a job at Elsinore Brewery where something is rotten. The brewery is managed by...

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  8. Ruff and Reddy Show, The [30/05/1964] (1964 Television)

    Series
    Ruff and Reddy Show, The
    Director
    Dick Schneider
    Producer
    Bob Cottle

    Children’s cartoon series featuring the adventures of Ruff (a cat) and Reddy (a dog). In live-action segments, host Captain Bob Cottle tells stories, draws and sketches and entertains with his puppets. In...

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  9. Matter of Life and Death, A (1948 Radio)

    Producer
    Archie Campbell

    Radio version of the film about RAF pilot (and poet, lunatic and lover) Peter Carter who unwittingly cheats death when he survives bailing out of his plane without a parachute. Originally written and...

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  10. Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

    aka: Stairway to Heaven

    Director
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Producer
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

    A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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