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  1. Senior English II: The Taming of the Shrew (1946 Radio)

    Series
    Schools

    Two-part schools broadcast of scenes of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted for radio by Silvia Goodall. Part 1 consits of readings of Act II i and III ii; part 2 features Act IV i, IV iii and iv and V ii. No...

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  2. Sam and Psyche (1946 Radio)

    Series
    Adventures of Sam Spade, The
    Director
    William Spier
    Producer
    William Spier

    Radio series about private detective Sam Spade, a character created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Maltese Falcon. A psychiatrist named Doctor Denoff comes to Spade (Howard Duff) when a blackmailer...

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  3. Adoulotoi Sklavoi (1946 Film)

    Director
    Vion Papamihalis; Marios Ploritis

    Feature film. On the eve of World War II in Athens, a group of young people have established a theatrical group, planning to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The outbreak of war, however, changes...

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  4. Green for Danger (1946 Film)

    Director
    Sidney Gilliat
    Producer
    Sidney Gilliat; Frank Launder

    Comedy crime film. In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. One of the nurses states that she has proof of who the murderer is. The facetious Inspector Cockrill...

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  5. Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

    aka: Stairway to Heaven

    Director
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Producer
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

    A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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  6. Macbeth (1945 Film)

    Series
    Famous Scenes from Shakespeare
    Director
    Henry Cass
    Producer
    Sydney Box

    Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows the murder of Duncan (II ii) and the sleepwalking scene (V i). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.

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  7. Julius Caesar (1945 Film)

    Series
    Famous Scenes from Shakespeare
    Director
    Henry Cass
    Producer
    Sydney Box

    Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows Mark Antony and Brutus in the Forum following Caesar’s murder (III ii). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.

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  8. Strange Illusion (1945 Film)

    Director
    Edgar G Ulmer
    Producer
    Leon Fromkess

    Film noir thriller B movie with loose connections to Hamlet. Paul (Lydon), has a recurring dream in which his father died in a car accident under mysterious circumstances and his mother (Eilers) falls in...

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  9. Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

    Director
    Elia Kazan
    Producer
    Louis D. Lighton

    Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...

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  10. Enfants du Paradis, Les (1945 Film)

    aka: Children of Paradise

    Director
    Marcel Carne
    Producer
    André Paulvé

    Feature film. Set in a mime theatre in Paris in the 1820s, tells the story of a free-spirited young woman, Garance, and four men who fall in love with her. There are two scenes from Othello (including V...

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