The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.2046 Tuesday, 13 December 2005
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Date: Saturday, 10 Dec 2005 19:42:57 -0500
Subject: TCM Shakespeare Film Festival
Two stand-outs are the 1912 silent Cleopatra and the Stuart Burge
Othello (out of print and only on vhs in the US). MND is only on vhs
too, so this is a chance to TiVo it and make your own DVD.
Turner Movie Channel
December 14 Wednesday Shakespeare
6:00 AM
Silent Shakespeare (1908) A collection of seven silent shorts based on
the plays of William Shakespeare, including King John (1899), King Lear
(1910) and Richard III (1911). 89m.
7:30 AM
Cleopatra (1912) In this silent film, Cleopatra shakes the Roman Empire
with her legendary affair with Marc Antony. Helen Gardner, Pearl
Sindelar, Harley Knoles. D: Charles Gaskill. 88m.
9:00 AM
Othello (1922) In this silent film, a famed general is led astray by
jealousy and an evil underling. Emil Jannings, Lya De Putti, Werner
Krauss. D: Dimitri Buchowetzki. BW 80m.
10:30 AM
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) Shakespeare's classic about two pairs
of lovers and an amateur actor who get mixed up with fairies. James
Cagney, Dick Powell, Mickey Rooney. D: Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle.
BW 143m. CC
1:00 PM
As You Like It (1936) Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young
woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she
loves. Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Henry Ainley. D: Paul
Czinner. BW 96m.
3:00 PM
Romeo And Juliet (1936) Shakespeare's classic tale of young lovers from
feuding families. Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore. D:
George Cukor. BW 125m. CC DVS
5:30 PM
Julius Caesar (1953) An all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's classic
about Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath. Marlon Brando,
James Mason, John Gielgud. D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW 121m. CC DVS
8:00 PM
Henry V (1944) Shakespeare's tale of the warrior king who learns the
meaning of heroism during a daring invasion of France. Sir Laurence
Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks. D: Sir Laurence Olivier C 137m.
10:30 PM
Hamlet (1948) The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to
prove his uncle murdered his father. Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie,
Jean Simmons. D: Laurence Olivier. BW 154m.
1:15 AM
Othello (1965) A famed general convinces himself that his wife is
unfaithful. Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith. D: Stuart
Burge. C 166m. LBX
4:15 AM
Orson Welles: The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice (1952) The
legendary Moor of Venice battles his growing suspicions that his wife is
unfaithful. Orson Welles, Michael MacLiammoir, Suzanne Cloutier. D:
Orson Welles. BW 93m.
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