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  1. Man from Laramie, The (1955 Film)

    Director
    Anthony Mann
    Producer
    William Goetz

    Feature Western film in which critics have seen the influence of the Gloucester sub-plot in King Lear. The patriach, Donald Crisp, is worried about his kingdom (cattle ranch) and, like Gloucester, he is...

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  2. Banquo’s Chair (1943 Radio)

    Series
    Suspense
    Director
    Ted Bliss
    Producer
    William Spier

    Radio play by Sigmund Miller based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man, and...

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  3. Hamlet Screen Tests (1933 Film)

    Director
    Margaret Carington; Robert Edmond Jones

    John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...

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