Macbeth

Synopsis: Television production of the play filmed at Hermitage Castle in the Highlands of Scotland. Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson are the Macbeths.
Series: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 20 Nov 1960 at 18:00 (Channel: NBC)
Duration: 80 mins

Director

George Schaefer

Producer

Cinematographer

Writer

Music

Costume

Art Direction

Cast

Notes: Budget c$1 million; the Hallmark company paid nearly half the cost.
History: Conceived as a theatrical feature MACBETH had its premiere as an NBC broadcast in the Hallmark Hall of Fame series. The full-length version (108min) as opposed to the tv version (80 min) was released theatrically in the UK in 1961. The film had a limited theatrical release in the US October 1963.
Awards: 1961 Director’s Guild of America winner - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television.
Reviews: Reviewed in Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 28, no. 329, May 1961 p. 76, the reviewer finding the film ‘safe, tame, respectable’ believing that Evans ‘never comes within striking distance of Macbeth’s ruined greatness’.

The Birmingham Shakespeare Library holds a release script.

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