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  1. Emperor’s Club, The (2002 Film)

    Director
    Michael Hoffman
    Producer
    Andrew Karsch; Marc Abraham

    Feature film. Mr Hundert (Kline) is a classics teacher in an all-boys prep school. Each year he moderates the ‘Mr Julius Caesar’ contest, a competition which pits the top three students of his class...

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  2. Shakespeare in Love (1998 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Madden
    Producer
    David Parfitt; Harvey Weinstein; Marc Norman; Edward Zwick; Donna Gigliotti

    Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...

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  3. Billy Madison (1995 Film)

    Director
    Tamra Davis
    Producer
    Robert Simonds

    Feature film comedy. Adam Sandler stars in the title role about a 27 year-old slacker who must go back to school in order to take over his father’s company. In response to his father’s tirade at his...

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  4. Moon over Parador (1988 Film)

    Director
    Paul Mazursky
    Producer
    Paul Mazursky

    Feature film. The narrative is told in flashback. Jack Noah (Dreyfuss) is a fairly successful stage and film actor on a location shoot in the English-speaking Parador. He’s given an offer he can’t refuse...

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  5. Romanoff and Juliet (1960 Film)

    aka: Dig That Juliet

    Director
    Peter Ustinov
    Producer
    Peter Ustinov

    Satirical feature film setting the Romeo and Juliet story into Cold War politics. Igor Romanoff, the son of a Russian ambassador from an obscure Eastern European country, Concordia, falls in love with Juliet...

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  6. Frozen Ghost, The (1945)

    Director
    Harold Young

    Feature film. Stage hypnotist Gregor the Great becomes enraged when a drunken audience member belittles his act. When the man dies suddenly, Gregor convinces himself that his hypnotic powers are to blame....

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  7. Boys from Syracuse, The (1940 Film)

    Director
    A. Edward Sutherland
    Producer
    Jules Levey

    Feature film version of the Broadway musical by George Abbott, Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, itself a free adaptation of The Comedy of Errors. "A musical employing Shakespeare’s plot and Ephesus...

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  8. Tower of London (1939 Film)

    Director
    Rowland L. Lee

    Feature film. Richard III interpreted as an historical costume drama/horror film with much emphasis on the torture methods used by Mord (a Buckingham equivalent). There are no direct references to Shakespeare.

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  9. Top of the Town (1937 Film)

    Director
    Ralph Murphy; Walter Lang

    Musical set in Manhattan. An heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located on the top of a 100-storey skyscraper. Extravagantly produced and a huge flop. Includes a scene in a nightclub in...

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