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  1. Richard III [2-Dvd Special Edition] (2013 Film)

    Series
    Criterion Collection

    Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...

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  2. Richard III (1955 Film)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...

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  3. Men Are Not Gods (1936 Film, Video)

    Director
    Walter Reisch
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    Feature film. Ann, secretary to a theatre critic, is persuaded to alter a poor review of actor Edmond Davey’s performance as Othello at the behest of his actress wife, Barbara. Ann is sacked, then falls in...

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  4. Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935 Film)

    Director
    Harold Young
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...

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