Macbeth (1953 Audio, Radio)

Sound recording of the Old Vic Company’s 1952-53 stage production of Macbeth with Alec Guinness and Pamela Brown as the Macbeths.

Macbeth (1953 Film)

Series

World’s a Stage, The

Director

Charles Deane

Producer

Charles Deane

Scene from Macbeth enacted by players from the Young Vic Company with a thirty second introduction by Ronald Howard. No cast details known, and the scene unidentified.

People from Shakespeare’s Plays: Macbeth (1953 Radio)

Series

Senior English II: People from Shakespeare’s Plays

Producer

Philippa Pearce

Schools radio broadcast. Part of series on Shakespeare’s characters, this programme (2 weekly parts) focuses on Macbeth.

Macbeth and Professor Dover Wilson (1953 Radio)

Series

Some Problems in Shakespeare

Radio broadcast. First of six talks by literary critic William Empson in which he discusses some of the problems of character and action raised by Shakespearean characters, such as Macbeth, Hamlet and...

Macbeth and His Wife (1953 Radio)

Series

Some Problems in Shakespeare

Radio broadcast. Second of six talks by literary critic William Empson in which he discusses some of the problems of character and action raised by Shakespearean characters, such as Macbeth, Hamlet and...

Mister Peepers [16/11/1952] (1953 Television)

Series

Mister Peepers

Director

Hal Keith

Producer

Fred Coe

American television sitcom featuring Wally Cox (Mr Robinson Peepers) as a junior high school science teacher at Jefferson High School, in the small Midwestern town of Jefferson. Mr Peepers is a shy,...

Macbeth (1952 Television)

Director

George R. Foa; Alan Lawson

Producer

Carl Ebert

Verdi’s opera sung in the original Italian, directed and adapted for television by George R. Foa. With Alexander Moyes as narrator. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Vittori Gui.

Laxdale Hall (1952 Film)

aka: Scotch on the Rocks

Director

John Eldridge

Feature film comedy. A group of car owners in the Hebridean village of Laxdale refuse to pay their road fund licences until they have been given a proper road. A parliamentary delegation arrives, and among...

Rideau Rouge, Le (1952 Film)

aka: Crimson Curtain, The

Director

André Barsacq

Producer

Paul Cadeac

Feature film. Murder mystery amidst a provincial stage production of Macbeth. The characters believe that the deaths, including that of the director, are a result of the curse of ‘the Scottish play’ but...

Macbeth (1951 Television)

Series

Westinghouse Studio One

Director

Franklin Schaffner

Producer

Worthington Miner

US television production with Charlton Heston as Macbeth.