SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Thunder of Battle

Synopsis

Roman costume drama with a script based loosely on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Plutarch’s Lives.

Language

Italian (Standard)

Country

France; Italy

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1964

Duration

101 mins; 7,902 feet

Availability

Out of Distribution

Credits

Director

Giorgio Ferroni

Producer

Diego Alchimede

Cinematographer

Augusto Tiezzi

Screenplay

Remigio Del Grosso

Music

Carlo Rustichelli

Cast

Gordon Scott	Caius Martius Coriolanus
Lilla Brignone	Volumnia
Philippe Hersent	Cominius
Aldo Bufi Landi	Marcus
Angela Minervini	Livia (Virgilia)
Rosalba Neri

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Historical period

Ancient Rome

Plays

Coriolanus

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Plutarch; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

The BFI National Archive holds the dubbed British version (88min).

Reviews

Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 147, entry 594).

Monthly Film Bulletin. vol.32, n.381. October 1965. p. 149.

Production Company

Name

Dorica Films

Name

Explorer Films

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web

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Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7436 0165

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN

Distributor

Name

20th Century Movies

Phone

0141-946 1121

Address

120 Queen Margaret Drive
Glasgow
G20 8NZ