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  1. Johnny Shakespeare (2007 Television)

    Series
    Afternoon Play, The
    Director
    Jim Cartwright

    Television drama written and directed by Jim Cartwright. Johnny comes from a broken home and lives with his alcoholic, bingo-addicted gran on a housing estate. He is illiterate. He meets Diane, a drama...

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  2. King Trash (2005 Radio)

    Series
    Friday Play, The
    Director
    Michael Hodges
    Producer
    Roger Elsgood

    Radio play written and directed by Mike Hodges, this reworking of King Lear tells the uncompromising story of 80-year-old criminal despot KT (George Sewell) who owns a landfill site in outer London. Cherie...

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  3. Shakespeare Enigma (1978 Radio)

    Series
    Johnny Chase, Secret Agent of Space

    Cult CBC radio comedy sci-fi adventure serial. Johnny and Dante time travel to Elizabethan England to try and find out who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. They find themselves involved in an assassination...

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  4. Quella Sporca Storia Nel West (1968 Film)

    aka: Johnny Hamlet

    Director
    Enzo G. Castellari
    Producer
    Elio Scardamaglia; Ugo Guerra

    Feature film. A spaghetti western based loosely on Hamlet but with a happier ending. Johnny Hamilton is a Confederate general in the Civil War and returns to Ranch Elsenor to discover that his father Chester...

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  5. All Night Long (1961 Film)

    Director
    Basil Deardon; Michael Relph

    Feature film updating Othello to a jazz club setting. Aurelius Rex is a famous black jazz musician with a white wife, former singer Delia. Wealthy Rodney Hamilton throws a party for him where one of the...

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  6. 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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  7. Gallant Sons (1940 Film)

    Director
    George B. Seitz
    Producer
    Stephani. Frederick

    Feature film. Johnny, By and Kate are schoolmates who attempt to prove the innocence of Johhny’s father. They discover the murderer is Al Posna and attempt a scheme in which Posna confesses his crime. They...

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