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Strange Illusion (1945, US, B&W, 80 min.)
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Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: James Lyndon, Sally Eilers.
Low-budget film noir Hamlet set in the 1940's.
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To Be Or Not To Be (1942 US B & W 99 min.)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard.
Comedy about a Polish
Shakespearean theatrical troupe that becomes involved in
espionage to try to survive the invading Nazis.
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To Be Or Not To Be (1983 US Color 100 min.)
- Director Alan Johnson
Cast: Mel Brooks, Anne Bankroft.
Remake of the 1942 comedy.
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Chimes At Midnight (1967 Spain/Switzerland B & W 115 min.)
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Director Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud.
Combines parts
of Henry IV, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, focusing on
the character of Falstaff.
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982 US Color 88 min.)
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Director Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow.
Adaptation of A Midsummer Night's
Dream set in early 20th Century America.
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All Night Long (1962 UK B & W 95 min.)
- Director Michael Relph, BasilDeardon
Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Attenborough.
Theme of Othello is
played out against a backdrop of Jazz musicians during a long
rehearsal.
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A Double Life (1947 US B & W 103 min.)
- Director George Cukor
Cast:
Ronald Colman, Edmund O'Brien, Shelly Winters.
Reality and
illusion become indistinguishable in the mind of an actor playing
the part of Othello.
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Tower of London (1939 US B & W 92 min.)
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Director Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price.
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Dramatization
of Richard III, borrowing from both Shakespeare and history.
Romanoff and Juliet (1960 US, Italy Color 103 min.)
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Director Peter Ustinov
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Sandra Dee, John Gavin.
A satire involving a
small European country which solves its problems by engineering
the marriage between the son of the Russian ambassador and the
daughter of the American ambassador.
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West Side Story (1961 US Color 153 min.)
- Director Robert Wise,
Jerome Robbins
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno.
Musical based on Romeo and Juliet involving Puerto Rican and White
gangs in New York City.
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Kiss Me Kate (1953 US Color 109 min.)
- Director: George Sidney
Cast:
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller.
Musical about a divorced
couple whose romance and reconciliation parallel their onstage
performances of Petruchio and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew.
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Tempest (1982 US Color 140 min.)
- Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon.
Contemporary adaptation of The Tempest about middle aged New
York architect who tries to reexamine his lifestyle by moving to a
Greek Island.
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Ran (1985 Japan, France Color 160 min.)
- Director: Akira Kurowsawa
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Tereo.
King Lear adaptation about a
warlord who turns over his domain to his eldest son, starting a
power struggle by his two younger sons.
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Valley Girl (1983 US Color 95 min.)
- Director: Martha Coolidge
Cast:
Nicholas Cage, Deborah Foreman.
Punker and Suburbanite romance
in California's San Fernando Valley based on Romeo and Juliet.
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The Dresser (1983 UK Color 118 min.)
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Director: Peter Yates.
Cast: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay.
Set during World War II,
about an aging Shakespearean actor-manager whose very survival
depends on the caretaking of his dresser, who lives vicariously
through the actor's performances.
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Catch My Soul (1974 US Color 97 min.)
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Director: Patrick McGoohan
Cast: Richie Havens, Season Hubley.
Rock & Roll musical
adaptation of Othello.
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The Boys From Syracuse (1940 US B & W 72 min.)
- Director: A. Edward
Sutherland
Cast: Martha Raye, Alan Jones.
Broadway/Hollywood musical-
comedy version of "A Comedy of Errors' set in ancient Greece.
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An Honourable Murder (1959 UK B & W 69 min.)
- Director: Godfrey
Grayson
Cast: Norman Woodland, Margaretta Scott.
"Julius Caesar" in a
modern business setting.
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Joe Macbeth (1955 UK B & W 90 min.)
- Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman.
"Macbeth" as a gangster story.
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Jounny Hamlet (1972 Italy Color 91 min.)
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Director Enzo Castellari
Cast: Gilbert Roland, Andrea Giordana.
"Hamlet" as a violent
"spaghetti western."
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Men Of Respect (1991 US Color 107 min.)
- Director William Reilly
Cast:
Rod Steiger, John Turturro.
New York City Italian Mafia version of
"Macbeth."
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Prospero's Books (1991 UK/France/Italy/Netherlands Color 120
min.)
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Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Isabelle Pasco.
Complex,
esoteric working of "The Tempest."
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The Rest Is Silence (1960 West Germany Color 106 min.)
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Director Helmut Kautner
Cast: Hardy Kruger, Peter Van Eyck.
German version of "Hamlet"
with the title character as a Harvard boy.
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Throne Of Blood (1957 Japan B & W 110 min.)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada.
Kurosawa's legendary version
of "Macbeth."
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