Time Flies

Synopsis
Feature film comedy. Tommy Handley and friends are transported back in time to Elizabethan England. Among various encounters with Elizabethans, Susie Barton enters the Globe theatre and finds William Shakespeare struggling to write Romeo and Juliet. She suggests lines for the balcony scene (II ii) which they enact together.
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Film
Technical information
Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release
1944
Duration
88 mins; 7,945 feet

Credits

Director
Walter Forde
Producer
Edward Black
Cinematographer
Basil Emmott
Screenplay
Howard Irving Young; J.O.C. Orton; Ted Kavanagah
Music
Bretton Byrd; Lewis Levy
Cast
Evelyn DallSusie Barton
Graham MoffattNephew
John SalewWilliam Shakespeare
Leslie BradleyWalter Raleigh
Moore MarriottSoothsayer
Olga LindoQueen Elizabeth
Tommy HandleyTommy

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Plays
Romeo and Juliet
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Globe Theatre; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Time Travel

Notes

Notes
The BFI National Archive holds 35mm preservation material only. No viewing copy (2005).
Reviews
Douglas Lanier, ‘ShakespeareareTM:: Myth and Biographical Fiction’ in Shaughnessy, Robert (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2007), 93-113, p. 96-7

Production Company

Name

Gainsborough Pictures

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web
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Fax
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Address
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How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Time Flies". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av36601 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)