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SCAdian MOVIES: SHAKESPEARE!
No list of SCAdian-interest movies would be complete without a thorough review of Shakepearean films. William Shakepeare wrote during the SCAdian period (well, there is some debate as to whether his plays after 1600 count as "period" for the SCA, but that's another topic), and his plays subsequently reflect period views and use period language. However, many of his plays are set in an early period than his, making "historically accurate" versions difficult (cannons in Hamlet's castle? A pistol at Shrewsbury? A striking clock in Ancient Rome?). But this doesn't stop folks from trying, and sometimes encourages them to throw historical authenticity to the winds and create versions that reflect a certain theme or point of view.
- SHAKESPEARE
Approxomate number of times certain Shakespeare plays have been made into movies (renamed versions that don't use the original lines don't count):
- Hamlet - 43
- Romeo And Juliet - 25
- Macbeth - 24
- Othello - 22
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - 19
- The Merchant of Venice - 12
- As You Like It - 10
- King Lear - 4
- Julius Ceasar - 2
- Richard III - 2
- Henry V - 2
- Taming of the Shrew - 3
- Much Ado About Nothing - 1
- Antony and Cleopatra - 1
- Titus Andronicus - 1
(Based on an article in the New York Daily News)
- All Night Long ('61 Basil Dearden. Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair, Keith Mitchell, Richard Attenborough. Modern Othello)
- Catch My Soul (Santa Fe Satan'74 Patrick McGoohan. Ritchie Havens, Lance LeGault, Season Hubley, Tony Joe White, Susan Tyrell, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. Rock-opera Othello)
- Colonel Heeza Liar Plays Hamlet (Animated Silent '16 John Randolph Bray)
- Discovering Hamlet ('90 Mark Olshaker. Kenneth Branagh, Richard Clifford, Richard Easton, Derek Jacobi, Edward Jewesbury, David Parfitt, Patrick Stewart, Sophie Thompson, Jay Villiers, Jimmy Yuill)
- A Double Life ('47 George Cukor. Ronald Coleman, Singe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien, Shelly Winters, Ray Collins, Millard Mitchell. Parts of Othello)
- + The Dresser ('84 Peter Yates. Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough. Parts of King Lear)
- Edgar Hamlet ('35 Arthur Ripley. Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Jack Rice, Dot Farley)
- Edgar's Hamlet (Silent '20 E. Mason Hopper. Edward Peil Jr.)
- ! Fallstaff: Chimes at Midnight ('66 Orson Wells. O. S., Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson. Pastiche of Henry IV pts 1 & 2, Henry V) ALW
- % Forbidden Planet ('56 Fred McLeod Wlcox. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Robby the Robot. SF Tempest)
- Green Eggs and Hamlet ('95 Mike O'Neal. Allen Corcorran, Ronald H. Cohen, Richard E. Doherty, Siobhán F. Jess, Robert A. Knop Jr., Richard James Mason, Josh Powlesson, David Seal, David Santiago)
- Hamlet (Silent 1900 Clément Maurice. Sarah Bernhardt, Pierre Magnier)
- Hamlet (France Silent '07 Georges Méličs)
- Hamlet (France Silent '09 Jean Mounet-Sully)
- Hamlet (Denmark Silent '10 Alwin Neuß, Aage Hertel, Ella La Cour, Emilie Sannom)
- Hamlet (Silent '10 William G.B. Barker. Charles Raymond)
- Hamlet (France Silent '10 Henri Desfontaines. Jacques Grétillat, Colanna Romano)
- Hamlet (Silent '12 Charles Raymond. C. R., Dorothy Foster, Constance Backner)
- Hamlet (Silent '13 Hay Plumb. Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Walter Ringham, Adeleine Bourne, Gertrude Elliot, J.H. Barnes, S.A. Cookson, Alex Scott-Gatty)
- Hamlet (Italy Silent '14 Arturo Ambrosio. Hamilton Revelle)
- Hamlet (Italy Silent '17 Eleuterio Rodolfi. Ruggero Ruggeri, Martelli, Helena Makowska, Mercedes Brignone)
- Hamlet (Denmark Silent '21 Sven Gade, Heinz Schall. Asta Nielsen, Anton De Verdier, Lilly Jacobson, Hans Junkermann, Eduard von Winterstein)
- Hamlet (UK TV '47 Basil Adams. John Byron, Muriel Pavlow, Margaret Rawlings, Patrick Troughton)
- ! Hamlet ('48 Laurence Olivier. L.O., Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Jean Simmons, Stanley Holloway, Peter Cushing, John Laurie , Anthony Quayle, Niall MacGinnis, Christopher Lee, Patrick Troughton, Harcourt Williams, John Gielgud)
- Hamlet (TV '53 Maurice Evans, Ruth Chatterton, Sarah Churchill, Barry Jones, Joseph Schildkraut)
- Hamlet (India '54 Kishore Sahu. Venus Banerji, Mala Sinha)
- Hamlet (Sweeden TV '55 Alf Sjöberg. Bengt Ekerot, Anita Björk, Edvin Adolphson, Edvin Adolphson, Gösta Cederlund, Curt Masreliez)
- Hamlet (TV '59 Michael Benthall, Ralph Nelson. John Neville, Oliver Neville, Margaret Courtney, Barbara Jefford, Joseph O'Conor)
- Hamlet (West Germany TV '60 Franz Peter Wirth. Maximilian Schell, Hans Caninenberg, Wanda Rotha, Dunja Movar, Franz Schafheitlin, Dieter Kirchlechner, Karl Michael Vogler, Eckart Dux, Herbert Bötticher, Karl Lieffen, Alexander Engel)
- Hamlet (TV '64 Philip Saville. Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Jo Maxwell Muller, Alec Clunes)
- Hamlet ('64 Bill Colleran, John Gielgud. Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, Clement Fowler, John Gielgud, George Rose, George Voskovec, John Cullum, Linda Marsh, Robert Milli, Christopher Culkin)
- Hamlet (Hamlet at Elsinore '64 Joseph Papp. Alfred Ryder, Howard Da Silva, Julie Harris, Nan Martin, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Steven Berkoff)
- + Hamlet ('69 Tony Richardson. Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Mark Dignam, Marianne Faithfull)
- Hamlet (TV '70 Peter Wood. Richard Chamberlain, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Ciaran Madden, Michael Redgrave, Martin Shaw)
- Hamlet (TV '72 David Giles. Ian McKellen, Susan Fleetwood, John Woodvine, Faith Brook)
- Hamlet (Canada '73 René Bonničre, Stephen Bush. Rick McKenna, Dan Hennessey, Becke Keller, Linda Certain, Stephen Bush, Michael Rudder, James Bearden)
- Hamlet (Australia TV '74 Julian Pringle)
- Hamlet ('76 Celestino Coronada. Quentin Crisp, Anthony Meyer, David Meyer, Helen Mirren, Vladek Sheybal, Barry Stanton)
- Hamlet ('78 Michel Duchaussoy)
- ! Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (PBS TV '80 Rodney Bennett. Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Eric Porter, Lalla Ward, David Robb, Patrick Allen, Robert Swann, Jonathan Hyde, Geoffrey Bateman)
- Hamlet ('87 Roland Kenyon, Rod MacDonald. Trisha Hitchcock, Melanie Revell, Richard Spaull)
- Hamlet (France TV '88 Pierre Cavassilas. Gérard Desarthe, Wladimir Yordanoff, Nada Strancar, Bernard Ballet, Vincent Perez, Marianne Denicourt, Thibault de Montalembert, Bruno Todeschini, Olivier Rabourdin, Marc Citti, Pascal Greggory) (TV)
- + Hamlet ('90 Franco Zeffirelli. Mel Gibson, Glen Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Helena Bonham-Carter, Ian Holm, Nathaniel Parker, Sean Murray, Trevor Peacock, John McEnery)
- + Hamlet (PBS TV '90 Kevin Kline. K.K., Brian Murray, Diane Venora, Dana Ivey, Josef Sommer, Michael Cumpsty, Peter Francis James, Phillip Goodwin, Reg E. Cathey, Robert Murch, MacIntyre Dixon)
- Hamlet (Russia/UK, Animated '92 Natalya Orlova)
- Hamlet (Dutch TV '92 Wim Danckaert)
- Hamlet (TV '94 Goswin Moniac. Michael Schenk, Antonia Mohr, Willy Metzeler, Ingrid Birkholz, Horst Langpap, Daniel Dubilier, Martin Hein)
- + Hamlet ('96 Kenneth Brannagh. K. B., Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Rufus Sewell, Richard Briers, Brian Blessed, Gerard Depardieu, Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris, Jack Lemmon, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Richard Attenborough, Nicholas Farrell, John Gielgud) ALW
- Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia (Adult)
- Hamlet (2000 Michael Almereyda. Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Karl Geary, Karl Geary, Dechen Thurman, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Bartel, Casey Affleck)
- Hamlet (TV 2000 Campbell Scott, Eric Simonson. Campbell Scott, Jamey Sheridan, Blair Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Sam Robards, John Benjamin Hickey, Roger Guenveur Smith, Michael Imperioli, Marcus Giamatti, Byron Jennings, Denis O'Hare)
- ! Henry V ('45 Laurence Olivier. L. O., Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Renee Asherton, Esmond Knight, Leo Genn, Ralph Truman, Harcourt Williams, Ivy St, Helier, Felix Aylmer, John Laurie)
- ! Henry V ('89 Kenneth Brannagh. K. B., Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Brian Blessed, Alec McCowen, Richard Briers, Robert Sephens, Robbie Coltrane, Christian Bale, Judi Dench, Paul Scofield, Geraldine McEwan)
- Joe Macbeth ('55 Ken Hughes. Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Gregoire, Aslan, Sidney James. Gangsters)
- Johnny Hamlet ('72 Enzo G. Castelari. Chip Corman, Gilbert Roland, Horst Frrank. Western)
- Jubal ('56 Delmer Daves. Glen Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Seiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr, Noah Beery Jr., Charles Bronson. Western Othello)
- Julius Caesar ('53 Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calheri, Edmond O'Brien,Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, George Macready, Michael Pate, Alan Napier.)
- + Julius Caesar ('70 Stuart Burge. Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Robert Vaughn, Michael York, Diana Rigg, Jill Bennett, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough)
- The King is Alive (2001 Kristian Levring. Romaine Bohringer, Bruce Davison. Parts of King Lear)
- King John(1899 Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree)
- King Lear ('71 Peter Brook. Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb, Cyril Cusack, Patrick Magee)
- ! King Lear (PBS,'85 Lawrence Olivier, Diana Rigg, Leo McKern)
- King Lear ('87 Jean-Luc Goddard. Peter Sellars, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, J-L. G., Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Kate Mailer)
- + King Lear (PBS,'98 Ian Holm)
- + Kiss me Kate ('53 George Sidney. Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Bobby Van, Keena Wynn, James Whitmore, Bob Fosse. Musical Taming of the Shrew, originally in glorious color 3D)
- + Looking For Richard ('96 Al Pacino. A. P., Frederic Kimball, Harris Yulin, Penelope Allen, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Estelle Parsons, Winona Ryder, Aidan Quinn. Creation of a Richard III)
- Macbeth ('46 Thomas A. Blair. David Bradley, William Bartholmay, Brainerd Duffield, Grosvenor Glenn, Louis Northop, Jain Wilimorsky)
- Macbeth ('48 Orson Welles. O. W., Jeannette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihey, Edgar Barrier, Roddy MacDowell, Alan Napier)
- ! Macbeth ('71 Roman Pollanski. John Finch, Francesca Annis, Martn Shaw)
- Macbeth ('88 Michael Jayston, Barbara Leigh-Hunt)
- + Macbeth ('97 Jeremy Freeston. Jason Connery, Helen Baxendale, Graham McTavish, Kenneth Bryans, Kern Falconer, Hildegarde Neil, Jean Trend, Phillipa Peak)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ('35 Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle. James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Olivia de Havilland, Mickey Rooney, Arthur Treacher, Billy Barty)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ('66 Dan Erksen. Suzanne Farrell, Edward Villella, Arthur Mitchell. Ballet)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ('68 Peter Hall. Diana Rigg, David Warner, Ian Richardson, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Helen Mirren)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ('99 Kevin Kline, Callista Flockhart)
- A Midwinter's Tale (In the Bleak Midwinter,'95 Kenneth Brannagh. Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Mark Hadfield, Nicholas Farrell, Gerald Horan, John Sessions, Celia ita Chamley, Julia Sawalha, Joan Collins. Parts of Hamlet)
- + Much Ado About Nothing ('93 Kenneth Brannagh. K. B., Emma Thompson, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Denzel Washington, REichard Briers, Kate Beckinsale, Brian Blessed)
- Otello ('86 Franco Zeffirelli. Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz, Petra Malakova, Urbano Barberini. Verdi's Opera)
- Othello ('52 Orson Welles. O. W., Michael MascLiammoir, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote, Michael Lawrence, Fay Compton, Doris Dowling)
- Othello ('65 Start Burge. Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi)
- + Othello ('95 Oliver Parker. Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Brannagh, Irene Jacob, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloney, Anna Patrick, Nicholas Farrell)
- Prince of Players ('55 Phillip Dunne. Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, Raymond Massey, John Derek, Eva Le Gallienne, Mae Marsh.)
- Prospero's Books ('91 Peter Greenaway. John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc)
- ! Ran ('85 Akira Kurosawa. Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Peter. Japanese King Lear)
- ! Richard III ('55 Laurence Olivier. L. O., John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom, Alec Clunes, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Pamela Brown. Michael Gough)
- + Richard III ('95 Richard Loncraine. Ian McKellen, Annette Benning, Robert Downey, Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristen Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith)
- Romeo and Juliet ('36 George Cukor. Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone)
- Romeo and Juliet ('54 Renayo Castellani. Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Mervyn Johns, John Gielgud)
- Romeo and Juliet ('66 Paul Czinner. Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn. Ballet)
- ! Romeo and Juliet ('68 Franco Zeffirelli. Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, Lawrence Olivier)
- Romeo & Juliet ('96 Baz Luhrmann. Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brian Denehey, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino, M Emmet Walsh)
- ! Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ('90 Tom Stoppard. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfus, Joanna Roth, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth, Ian Richardson. Different view of Hamlet)
- ! Shakespeare in Love ('98 Steven Feinnes, Gwenneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Ben Affleck, Simon Callow, Parts of Romeo and Juliet)
- Shakespeare Wallah (India,'65 James Ivory. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendall)
- Strange Illusion ('45 Edgar G Ulmer. James Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, Regis Toomy. Version of Hamlet)
- The Taming of the Shrew ('29 Sam Taylor. Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks,"with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor")
- The Taming of the Shrew ('67 Franco Zeffirelli. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Michael York, Cyril Cusack)
- % Tempest ('82 Paul Mazursky. John Cassavetes, Raul Julia, Susan Sarandon, Molly Ringwald, Gena Rowlands,Sam Robards)
- + The Tempest ('98 Peter Fonda)
- Ten Things I Hate About You ('99 Modern Taming of the Shrew)
- Theater of Blood ('73 Douglas Hickox. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Milo O'Shea)
- ! Throne of Blood (Japan,'57 Akira Kurosawa. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki. Japanese MacBeth)
- Titus ('99 Anthony Hopkins)
- Den Tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark(Sweeden TV '84 Stellan Skarsgĺrd, Frej Lindqvist, Mona Malm, Pernilla August, Pernilla Wahlgren, Per Eggers, Dan Ekborg, Pernilla August, Tomas Bolme, Johannes Brost) (TV)
- Twelfth Night ('96 Trevor Nunn. Imogen Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Toby Stephens, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Richard E. Grant, Mel Smith, Imelda Staunton, Nicholas Farrell, Stephen Mackintosh)
- + Twelfth Night (PBS Live From Lincoln Center. Helen Hunt)
- % West Side Story ('61 Robrt Wise, Jerome Robbins. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn, Tucker Smith, David Winters)
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