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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...