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  1. Toast of the Town [07/08/1955] (1955 Television)

    aka: Sullivan Reel

    Series
    Toast of the Town
    Director
    John Wray (2)

    US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This episode includes scenes (c 16mins) from a production of The Tempest filmed at the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford, CT. There are also scenes (c...

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  2. 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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  3. Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935 Film)

    Director
    Harold Young
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...

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  4. Twentieth Century - The Creative Thirties Retrospective Film on American Arts During the 1930s (Film)

    Director
    Norman Bel Geddes

    Very brief extract showing scenes from the 1931 Norman Bel Geddes’ Broadway production of Hamlet with Raymond Massey as Hamlet and Celia Johnson as Ophelia. This was Celia Johnson’s only Broadway...

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