Underplayed Gems

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

A Midsummer Night's Dream poster
Directed by
Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle
Genre
fantasy film, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 12m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This film adaptation follows several couples and a group of amateur actors who get lost in a fairy-filled forest. The fairy king and queen are feuding, which causes magical mix-ups with love spells.

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What happens

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play of the same name. It is directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, and stars James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland (in her film debut), Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Victor Jory and Ian Hunter. The screenplay, written by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr., is adapted from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the play from the previous year. Felix Mendelssohn's music was extensively used, as re-orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The ballet sequences featuring the fairies were choreographed by Ballets Russes veteran Bronislava Nijinska. The film opened on October 9, 1935. It initially received mixed reviews and was a financial failure, but retrospective reviews have been far more positive, and it is considered one of the best film versions of Shakespeare's play. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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