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  1. Hamlet III: The Poisoned Kingdom (1959 Film, Video)

    Series
    Hamlet
    Director
    John Barnes; Douglas Campbell; Michael Langham; Floyd Rinker

    The play’s theme of ‘poison’ is explored, both in the physical sense of the three poisoning episodes, and in the figurative sense of subtly spreading corruption and evil.

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  2. Hamlet IV: The Readiness is All (1959 Film, Video)

    Series
    Hamlet
    Director
    John Barnes; Douglas Campbell; Michael Langham; Floyd Rinker

    Professor Mack of Yale University lectures on the play. Part 1 discusses the social structures, customs and audiences of Elizabethan England. Part 2 looks at the play’s three stories: the ghost story, the...

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  3. Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (1959 Audio)

    Director
    George Rylands

    Complete performance by the Marlowe Dramatic Society with David Gibson as Valentine and Richard Marquand as Proteus.

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  4. Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff, The (1959 Television)

    Series
    For the Schools
    Director
    Ronald Eyre
    Producer
    Ronald Eyre

    Schools broadcast based on the two parts of Henry IV, which was presented as a mini-series in seven parts following the fortunes of Falstaff. With music specially composed by Kenneth Leighton, starring Roger...

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  5. Monitor [12/04/1959] (1959 Television)

    Series
    Monitor
    Producer
    Paul Newington

    Item from the television arts programme. Alfred Alvarez interviews Paul Robeson, then appearing as Othello in Stratford. Robeson recalls playing the role in the past and puts strong emphasis on the racial...

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  6. Anne Shelton Show, The [23/02/1959] (1959 Television)

    Series
    Anne Shelton Show, The
    Director
    Bill Hitchcock

    Television variety show. The second half of the programme contains a sketch entitled ‘The life and Legend of Matt Macbeth’, by Wild Will Shakespeare, presenting Macbeth as a musical Western. Dick Bentley...

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  7. North by Northwest (1959 Film)

    Director
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Producer
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Feature film. A spy thriller taking it’s name from Hamlet’s line ‘I am but mad north-north-west’ (II ii). New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by...

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  8. Carry on Teacher (1959 Film)

    Director
    Gerald Thomas
    Producer
    Peter Rogers

    Feature film. An early comedy in the CARRY ON cycle featuring Ted Ray as the headmaster of an undisciplined school. Includes an unruly performance of a school play, Romeo and Juliet, with unmelodic...

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  9. Julius Caesar (1959 Television)

    Series
    BBC Television World Theatre
    Director
    Stuart Burge
    Producer
    Stuart Burge

    Televised version of the play, with Robert Perceval as Caesar and Eric Porter as Brutus. According to its producer, Stuart Burge, the production strives "for a true and lively interpretation of the text, but...

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  10. Danger Within (1959 Film)

    aka: Breakout

    Director
    Don Chaffey
    Producer
    Colin Lesslie

    Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...

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