SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Feature film. Anna Neagle is a supposed Nazi sympathiser who is really British to the core and helps foil a German plot to blow up a harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film opens with two British air-raid wardens discussing the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy. One of them ties Shakespeare to the Blitz by quoting the lines from The Tempest beginning ‘be not afeared, the isle is full of noises’ (III ii).

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of release

1943

Duration

98 mins; 8,815 feet

Credits

Director

Herbert Wilcox

Producer

Herbert Wilcox

Cinematographer

Mutz Greenbaum

Screenplay

Miles Malleson

Music

Clifford Parker

Cast

Anna Neagle	Sally Maitland
Richard Greene	Jim Garrick

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Tempest, The

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Authorship

Notes

Reviews

`The impossibility of being fooled even for a moment by the central premise kills a dreary film’ (McKernan & Terris, Walking Shadows: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive. (London:bfi, 1994). p163.

Production Company

Name

Imperator

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

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