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Hamlet II: What Happens in Hamlet? (1959 Film, Video)
- Series
- Hamlet
- Director
- John Barnes; Douglas Campbell; Michael Langham; Floyd Rinker
Professor Mack of Yale University divides the play into three sections: a ghost story, a detective story, and a revenge story. and discusses the major characters and movements, illustrated with scenes from...
Hamlet III: The Poisoned Kingdom (1959 Film, Video)
- Series
- Hamlet
- Director
- John Barnes; Douglas Campbell; Michael Langham; Floyd Rinker
The play’s theme of ‘poison’ is explored, both in the physical sense of the three poisoning episodes, and in the figurative sense of subtly spreading corruption and evil.
Hamlet IV: The Readiness is All (1959 Film, Video)
- Series
- Hamlet
- Director
- John Barnes; Douglas Campbell; Michael Langham; Floyd Rinker
Professor Mack of Yale University lectures on the play. Part 1 discusses the social structures, customs and audiences of Elizabethan England. Part 2 looks at the play’s three stories: the ghost story, the...
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (1959 Audio)
- Director
- George Rylands
Complete performance by the Marlowe Dramatic Society with David Gibson as Valentine and Richard Marquand as Proteus.
Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff, The (1959 Television)
- Series
- For the Schools
- Director
- Ronald Eyre
- Producer
- Ronald Eyre
Schools broadcast based on the two parts of Henry IV, which was presented as a mini-series in seven parts following the fortunes of Falstaff. With music specially composed by Kenneth Leighton, starring Roger...
Monitor [12/04/1959] (1959 Television)
- Series
- Monitor
- Producer
- Paul Newington
Item from the television arts programme. Alfred Alvarez interviews Paul Robeson, then appearing as Othello in Stratford. Robeson recalls playing the role in the past and puts strong emphasis on the racial...
Carry on Teacher (1959 Film)
- Director
- Gerald Thomas
- Producer
- Peter Rogers
Feature film. An early comedy in the CARRY ON cycle featuring Ted Ray as the headmaster of an undisciplined school. Includes an unruly performance of a school play, Romeo and Juliet, with unmelodic...
Julius Caesar (1959 Television)
- Series
- BBC Television World Theatre
- Director
- Stuart Burge
- Producer
- Stuart Burge
Televised version of the play, with Robert Perceval as Caesar and Eric Porter as Brutus. According to its producer, Stuart Burge, the production strives "for a true and lively interpretation of the text, but...
Danger Within (1959 Film)
aka: Breakout
- Director
- Don Chaffey
- Producer
- Colin Lesslie
Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...
Dame Edith Sitwell (1959 Television)
Television programme presented by Elwyn Jones. Dame Edith Sitwell repeats a recital of poems which she gave at the Edinburgh Festival in 1959. Among the recitations are the song ‘Take, O! take those lips...