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  1. Joe Macbeth (1955 Film)

    Director
    Ken Hughes
    Producer
    M.J. Frankovich

    Feature film presenting the Macbeth plot as a gangster film. Joe Macbeth is number two in the underworld to ‘kingpin’ Duca. Goaded by his wife Lily, who wants Joe to become ‘kingpin’, and...

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  2. 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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  3. House of Strangers (1949 Film)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    Sol C. Siegel

    Feature film, based on the novel I’ll Never Go Home Any More by Jerome Weidman. A tyrannical Italian-American banker (Robinson) finds that his three sons turn against him when he is prosecuted by the state...

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