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 Dall Susie Barton Graham Moffatt Nephew John Salew William Shakespeare Leslie Bradley Walter Raleigh Moore Marriott Soothsayer Olga Lindo Queen Elizabeth Tommy Handley Tommy
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
Archive
- Name
BFI National Archive
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7436 0165
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Time Flies". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av36601 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)