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Flesh and Blood Show, The (1972 Film)
aka: Asylum of the Insane
- Director
- Pete Walker
- Producer
- Pete Walker
Horror film. A group of eight actors rehearsing a review at the Dome, an abandoned seaside theatre, are attacked by a mysterious killer. In an extended flashback sequence (initiated by Othello’s exchange...
Korol Lir (1971 Film)
aka: Korol Lir
- Director
- Grigori Kozintsev
Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...
Macbeth (1971 Film)
aka: Tragedy of Macbeth
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Producer
- Andrew Braunsberg
Feature film. Haunting and unsparing in the realism, Polanski’s unique and pessimistic vision confronts both the dark comic elements and terror of the play’s violence. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis are...
Julius Caesar (1970 Film, Video)
- Director
- Stuart Burge
- Producer
- Peter Snell
A feature film which grew out of Stuart Burge’s experience in directing a BBC television version of the play in 1959, as well as a subsequent London stage production. The pedestrian production was...
Twelfth Night (1970 Television)
- Director
- John Sichel
- Producer
- John Dexter; Cecil Clarke
A production staged for television by John Sichel with Joan Plowright as Viola/Sebastian, Alec Guinness as Malvolio, Tommy Steele as Feste and Ralph Richardson as Sir Toby Belch.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1968 Film)
- Director
- Peter Hall
- Producer
- Michael Birkett
Feature film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Eliminating cinematic narrative and theatrical staging the film was harshly treated by the critics.
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’.
Noble Roman, The (1967 Television)
- Series
- Mr. Rose
- Director
- David Cunliffe
- Producer
- Philip Mackie
Detective series. Chief Inspector Charles Rose of Scotland Yard, now retired, revisits one of his old cases when the son of a celebrated archaeologist dies in an apparent car accident. His father had been...
Campanadas a Medianoche (1966 Film)
aka: Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Producer
- Emiliano Piedra
The story of Falstaff’s friendship with Prince Hal, and his rejection when the Prince becomes King, adapted chiefly from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I and II, but also Richard II, Henry V and The Merry...
Gamlet (1964 Film)
aka: Hamlet
- Director
- Grigori Kozintsev
Feature film version of the play, with a heavily cut text based on Pasternak’s translation. The political stance of the film-maker is to the fore, and the cinematography stark and elemental. recently...