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Romeo and Juliet (1968 Film, Video)
- Director
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Producer
- John Brabourne; Anthony Havelock-Allan
A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.
Michael Hordern (1968 Television)
- Series
- Tempo - The Actor and the Role
- Director
- Helen Standage
- Producer
- John Irwin
Television arts documentary. Michael Hordern talks about the role of Prospero. He speaks of the challenges that the role presents, emphasising Prospero’s humility and compassion. He fears the dangers of...
All’s Well That Ends Well (1968 Television)
- Series
- Theatre 625
- Director
- Claude Whatham; John Barton
- Producer
- Ronald Travers
Television presentation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production, adapted and directed for the stage by John Barton.
Quella Sporca Storia Nel West (1968 Film)
aka: Johnny Hamlet
- Director
- Enzo G. Castellari
- Producer
- Elio Scardamaglia; Ugo Guerra
Feature film. A spaghetti western based loosely on Hamlet but with a happier ending. Johnny Hamilton is a Confederate general in the Civil War and returns to Ranch Elsenor to discover that his father Chester...
Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1968 Film)
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Producer
- Neil Hartley
Feature film. A history of the catastrophic charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, 1854. Includes a scene from Macbeth at a London theatre, where Macbeth meets the witches for the second time...
Tempest, The (1968 Film)
- Director
- Ian Wilson
- Producer
- Carole Weisweiller
Documentary. In the summer of 1968, at an invitation from Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook worked for ten weeks with actors from France, Great Britain (chiefly RSC actors), America and Japan. This culminated...
Frankie Howerd Show, The [25/09/1968] (1968 Television)
- Series
- Frankie Howerd Show, The
- Producer
- Peter Frazer-Jones
A one-off special comedy sketch television programme. The episode included a take on the final scene in Othello with Frankie Howerd and Cilla Black.
Tempest, The (1968 Television)
- Series
- Play of the Month
- Director
- Basil Coleman
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
Televised adaptation of the play directed by Basil Coleman with Michael Redgrave as Prospero, Keith Michell as Caliban and Ronald Pickup as Ariel. Dancing support by ‘The Ballet Rambert’.
Theatres (1968 Film)
- Series
- London Line Colour Series 2
British government-sponsored cinemagazine made for export to English-speaking countries. Tom Stoppard (smoking) is interviewed by Ian Morrison about British theatre, and talks briefly about his new play...
Journey to Uranus (1968 Radio)
- Series
- Round the Horne
- Producer
- John Simmonds
Classic BBC radio comedy series presented by Kenneth Horne. In each show two out of work gay chorus boys Julian (Paddick) and Sandy (Williams) enact a sketch where their entrepreneurial businesses are...