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  1. Romeo-Juliet (1990 Film)

    Director
    Armando Acosta
    Producer
    Armando Acosta; Paul Celis; Lanny Mickelson; Andree Castagne

    Film version of Romeo and Juliet casting the feral cats of Venice, New York and Ghent as actors with voices dubbed by established actors of the British theatre. Filmed as a concert, with music from Prokofiev...

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  2. Scottish Tragedy, The (1984 Video)

    Director
    Mike Crisp

    Produced by the BBC’s Training Department and conceived as a comedy, highlights the problems which can beset a badly organised film unit on location. Shows the problems experienced by such a production...

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  3. Hamlet (1976 Film)

    Director
    Celestino Coronado

    Feature film adaptation of the play. An abbreviated version in heightened style by actors wearing exaggerated make-up and stylised costumes. Hamlet is played by twin actors to show him as literally a split...

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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